Show NAME TELLS STUA STORY y pennsylvania towns and streams indicate origin welsh colony left its impress upon territory near neap philadelphia alono along the delaware river upper and lower dublin philadelphia few states have such peculiar names as pennsylvania and the vicinity of this city contributes a complement of them besides telling as correctly as aa history itself of the nationality tiona lity of early settlers and the places whence they came these in many instances show the philology of the language to which they belong others have been trans planted from beyond the seas and some such as those of indian origin designate the tha topography of the localities cali calit ties les they namo name early welsh settlers left their impress on territory contiguous to philadelphia by naming their settler settlements denti after towns hills and valleys in their native gwalia bryn mawr Is one of the tha places they named bryn means hill and mawr Is great or big and pencoyd is the welsh for head of the woods pen means head and coyd is ie woods bala across the schuylkill from manayunk Mana yunk in the welsh Is town it was named after the birthplace of the late george B roberts roberta one time president of the pennsylvania railroad company data bala is also the gaelic of town and to is one of the evidences of the similarity between the tongues gladwyne which was included in the old welsh tract on an the west side of tho the schuylkill means white or clean section while bethryn means broad or open place and echlyn Is the upper take lake uch ucb la Is upper and lynn Is lake some say that upper dublin and lower dublin both suburban places were not named by irish settlers but by welsh colonists and tho the reason cairned tor for this Is that the name dublin la is welsh as well as irish the welsh walsh for dublin Is dark pool or du while the irish for dublin Is duah lin or black pool duah lin was originally that part of the river cliffey liffey on which the city of dublin now elands our dublin may be irish but like the welsh names it was transplanted and has no bearing whatever upon the topography of the northern tier of this city there are north wales and gwynedd on the north penn branch of the i philadelphia reading railway they I 1 are re on a tract of land bought by james penn pann and transferred to the welsh colony which named it gwynedd the land wag wad divided later and each of the two sets of colonists wanted the name gwynedd retained but both wanted it for their respective section there was a compromise on tho the northern part being named north wales and the lower part was permitted to be gwynedd which means white land or northland in old welsh to live in wales was an aspiration of these sturdy colonists in the same territory as upper dublin is the hamlet of Kin kingora cora kin ican is the gaelic or old celtic for hoa head d and cora is sweet scented there is nothing in the locality which calls for such a cognomen no knolls hills of flowers or ferns scent it at any period of the year cornwell Is from the old celtic name co corn rn wall which menns means horned cliffs such as are on the tha coast of cornwall and from where it got its name in the tha early ages of the british isles tullytown Tully town Is halt half celtic niso also but when you reach tacony und and hear the conductor shout tack oo oon nee then you should know he to is giving you a touch of the indian dialect of the delawarek Dela waree tribe the delawarek Dela wares are sr redi edited ted with doing tho the christening iri in their tongue after a swamp near the river there are many indian names tho the delaware all the way up to ocolo iocono oco bis big hills and mananka manunka chunk j rin aln spot crossing over to carbon county through tho the Pennsyl pennsylvania vanta highlands you meet scores oi of indian names that bespeak the topography of the country some of them are mauch chunk bear mountain and Towa tho the wilderness a name though indian was wa 11 given the forest north of the DIU blue mountains by the jesuit fathers the first Shene or pale faces to invade it nesquehoning black lick waters lick was the indian name for coal and nesquehoning is stream from the glen Nesco peco now Nesco nescopeck Nes copeck Deck coal washed by waters indicates that tho the indians were the original discoverers of coal and knew what it was tor for according to Ro Rosc hll historian of the united brethren they worked it into pipe heads and built pit fires with it on which they cooked food in pots made from the trunks of the gumberry lumberry gum berry tree |