Dutch Americans to Dutch places (for example Brooklyn which stems from Breukelen) - can still be seen. There are about 35 Dutch restaurants and bakeries in the United States, most of them founded in the 20th century. New York City for example has many originally Dutch street and place names which range from Coney Island and Brooklyn to Wall Street and Broadway. And up the river in New York State Piermont, Orangeburg, Blauvelt and Haverstraw, just to name a few places. In the Hudson Valley region there are many places and waterways whose names incorporate the word "-kill", Dutch for "stream" or
Caughnawaga, New York 1788, the land north of the river became organized as the Town of Caughnawaga, named after the Dutch settlement. After the Town of Caughnawaga was divided in 1793, it no longer existed in name. The towns of Amsterdam, and the Fulton County towns of Broadalbin, Johnstown, and Mayfield were created from the former territory of Caughnawaga. Caughnawaga, New York Caughnawaga is a former town in then Tryon County, later Montgomery County New York, USA. Caughnawaga is believed to be a Mohawk language word meaning "at the rapids", referring to the site along the Mohawk River. It was the name of