What is "minisink"

Minisink may refer to:

• Minisink - a loosely defined region of the Upper Delaware Valley in northwestern New Jersey, northeastern Pennsylvania, and around Port Jervis, New York, first settled in the 1690s
• Minisink, New York
• Minisink Ford, New York
• Minisink Valley Central School District
• Minisink Valley High_School
• Minisink Archeological Site - A Native American site in Sussex County, New Jersey connected to Munsee (Lenape) settlement and first contact with European settlers
• Battle of Minisink - a 1779 battle in the American Revolutionary War
• Minisink Angle - a colonial land grant in early 18th Century New York
• Minisink Patent - a colonial land grant in early 18th Century New York

The Minisink or (more recently) Minisink Valley is a loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey ( Sussex and Warren counties), northeastern Pennsylvania ( Pike and Northampton counties) and New York ( Orange and Sullivan counties).

The name was derived by Dutch colonists from the Munsee name for the area, as bands of their people took names after geographic places which they inhabited as territory throughout the mid-Atlantic area. Originally inhabited by Munsee, the northern branch of the Lenape or Delaware Indians, the area's first European settlers arrived in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and were Dutch and French Huguenot families from colonial New York's Hudson River Valley. The term "Minisink" is not used often today. It is preserved because of its historical relevance concerning the early European settlement of the region during the American colonial period and as an artifact of the early "first contact" between Native Americans and early European explorers, traders and missionaries in the seventeenth century.

Much of the historical Minisink region has been incorporated into the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area after defeat of a controversial dam project proposed to be built by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Delaware River near Tocks Island.