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Kayaking and canoeing are popular leisure activities on the slow moving Walkill river, in upstate N.Y.
The Wallkill River, a tributary of the Hudson, drains Lake Mohawk in New Jersey, flowing from there generally northeasterly 94 miles (151 km) into New York, where it drains into Rondout Creek near Rosendale, with the combined flows reaching the Hudson at Kingston.
The river is often said to be unusual because it flows north between two major south-flowing rivers, the Hudson and the Delaware River.
Native Americans knew the river as Twischsawkin, meaning "the land where plums abound". At least three prehistoric rock shelters have been found in archaelogical digs in the region. For the indigenous peoples, it was not only important for its arable land but for its geological resources. The river and its valley are abundant in flint and chert, from which they made spear points and arrowheads.
European settlers of the region named it first the Palse River, after New Paltz. Later, it was called the Waal river after their native Netherlands. They worked their way down it from the Hudson Valley in the 17th century, and were followed by the British after the colony changed hands.---Wikipedia |
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