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The Wappinger were an American tribe native to eastern New York.
Wappinger may also refer to:
- Wappinger, New York, a town named for the tribe
- Wappingers Falls, New York, a village located in the Town of Wappinger and the Town of Poughkeepsie
- Wappinger Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River
- Wappinger Fault, a fault line under the town
- Wappingers Central School District
- Kieft's War, also known as the Wappinger War, a 17th-century conflict between the Dutch and the Native Americans
The Wappinger were an Eastern Algonquian-speaking tribe from New York and Connecticut. They lived on the east band of the Hudson River south to the Connecticut River Valley.
In the 17th century, they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, and their territory included the east bank of the Hudson along both Putnam and Westchester counties all the way to Manhattan Island to the south, the Mahican territory bounded by the Roeliff-Jansen Kill to the north, and extended east into parts of Connecticut.
Usage examples of "wappinger".
One-armed and embittered, Granpa came home to Wappinger Falls and, like his fellow veterans, tried to remake his life in a different and increasingly hopeless world.
Bicycles, rare around Wappinger Falls, were thick as flies, darting ahead and alongside drayhorses pulling wallowing vans, carts and wagons.
BEDS, ROOMS, or HOTEL with my need, for I was looking for the urban version of the inn at Wappinger Falls or the Poughkeepsie Commercial House.
To go back to Wappinger Falls was out of the question, not simply to dodge the bitterness of admitting defeat so quickly, but because I knew myself to be completely useless to my parents.
Without apparent effort or management he drew from me the story of my ambitions and misadventures since leaving Wappinger Falls.
Less than a mile out of town the highway assumed the familiar aspect of the roads around Wappinger Falls and Poughkeepsie: rutted, wavering, and with deep, unexpected holes.
I was a full fellow of Haggershaven, securely at home for the first time since I left Wappinger Falls more than six years before.
I was looking for the urban version of the inn at Wappinger Falls or the Poughkeepsie Commercial House.
Then Wappingers Falls and Fishkill and Beacon, Peekskill and Ossining and Tarrytown, White Plains and Yonkers and New York.
It was late afternoon when a chartered plane brought Wood and Gerston to the nearest airport, at Wappingers Falls, New York, where a rental car waited.
The Wappingers fled down to Pavonia (present-day Jersey City, New Jersey), just across the Hudson from Manhattan.