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Lake in Wissinoming Park

Yellow Jacket's Stadium

Wissinoming takes its name from Wissinoming Creek, which is a patent for land granted by Edmund Andros, Governor of the Province of New York, on March 25, 1676, and was spelled, “Sissowokissinek,” Indian for “long, slender fish.” The first inhabitants of Wissinoming were the Lenni-Lenape. “Long, slender fish” perhaps originates from the eels caught in the Delaware River. The first grant to a white man in this area, a Swedish settler named Peter Cock, in 1675, was named “Quessmacemink.” The alternate spelling of this name is Kwissinomink, which would be pronounced “Wissinoming” in English and would possibly mean “Duck Creek.” In 1805, a survey was made of the Howell Farm, upon which Wissinoming is built. Howell Farm comprised 200 acres of land bounded on the east by Torresdale Avenue, the west by Wissinoming Park, the north by Wissinoming Creek (approximately the Robbins Avenue area), and the south by Dark Run Lane (Cheltenham Avenue). It was purchased by the Wissinoming Land Association in 1885. Matthias W. Baldwin (1795-1866), the locomotive pioneer, named his country home “Wissinoming.” It was opposite the railroad station about 1853. A settlement grew up around this depot.

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