Sicomac, New Jersey

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Sicomac, New Jersey
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Coordinates: 41°00′16″N74°11′18″W / 41.004387°N 74.188270°W / 41.004387; -74.188270 Coordinates: 41°00′16″N74°11′18″W / 41.004387°N 74.188270°W / 41.004387; -74.188270
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of New Jersey.svg  New Jersey
County Bergen
Township Wyckoff
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern (EDT))
Area code(s) 201

Sicomac is an unincorporated community located within Wyckoff, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. [1]

Wyckoff, New Jersey Township in New Jersey

Wyckoff is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 16,696, reflecting an increase of 188 (+1.1%) from the 16,508 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,136 (+7.4%) from the 15,372 counted in 1990. As of the 2010 Census, Wyckoff ranked 55th in highest-income places in the United States with a population of at least 10,000 at $103,614 HHI. Statewide, Wyckoff ranked 41st among New Jersey locations by per capita income, with a per capita money income of $49,375 as of 1999, an increase of 49.1% from the $33,124 recorded in 1989.

Bergen County, New Jersey County in the United States

Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2018 Census estimate, the county's population was 936,692, an increase of 3.5% from the 2010 census, which in turn represented an increase of 20,998 (2.4%) from the 884,118 counted in the 2000 Census. Located in the northeastern corner of New Jersey and its Gateway Region, Bergen County is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area and is directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, to which it is connected by the George Washington Bridge.

New Jersey State of the United States of America

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the Delaware Bay and Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous, with 9 million residents as of 2017, making it the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states with its biggest city being Newark. New Jersey lies completely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia. New Jersey was the second-wealthiest U.S. state by median household income as of 2017.

The first known human inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape Native Americans who lived north of the Raritan River and spoke a Munsee dialect of Algonquian. The Hackensack and Tappan Indians spoke the Unami Lenape dialect the distinct difference between Unami and Munsee us Unami used the letter R along with its sound such as Chief Oritam, the Munsee language did not have the letter R or sound in the language, source Author Anthropologist Evan Pritchard. Sicomac, said to mean "resting place for the departed" or "happy hunting ground", is an area of Wyckoff that, according to tradition, was the burial place of many Native Americans, including Chief Oratam of the Ackingshacys, and many stores and buildings there are named after the area's name, including Sicomac Elementary School. [2] Most Native Americans had left by the 19th century, although a small group lived near Clinton Avenue until 1939.

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Raritan River Major River of New Jersey

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Algonquian languages subfamily of Native American languages

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It has also been interpreted as black fish. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed May 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ "If You're Thinking of Living In/Wyckoff; Country Ambiance in Ramapo Foothills". The New York Times , March 19, 1995.
  3. ↑ The Lenape/English Dictionary
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