NYCkayaker Sherman Creek. Was: (no subject)

[David Gottlieb]

I grew up in Washington Heights and Inwood and was an active member of CB12,
Manhattan until I moved from the city....

Sherman Creek and Sherman Avenue was named, as a previous poster correctly
stated, after a landowner and farmer from the early 1800s. There used to be
a Con Ed coal fired plant, its fumes I used to breathe in shile attending
George Washington HS, that was torn down in the 1990s.

Before the tidal creek was called Sherman Creek, I believe Sherman Creek was
named Half Kill. 

Much has changed since the early 1800s when sherman creek was a large marsh
that has mostly been filled in.....



On 1/17/08 8:03 AM, "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk at rockandwater.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:43:21AM -0800, TomBrooklyn wrote:
>> (I'm guessing General William Tecumseh Sherman, who burned Atlanta to the
>> ground and
>> scorched the earth from there to the sea at Savannah, crippling the Rebels in
>> the
>> largest and bloodiest war in American history.)
> 
> <chuckle>  While spending lots of time in various remote areas of
> West Virginia, I've been told that this conflict is properly known
> as "The War of Northern Aggression".  ;-)
> 
> BTW, the origins of the names of many streams in NJ, PA, MD and DE
> are covered by Ed Gertler in his various guidebooks.
> 
> ---Rsk
> 
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