Moordener Kill

Coordinates: 42°32′36″N 73°45′14″W / 42.54333°N 73.75389°W / 42.54333; -73.75389

Moordener Kill
Stream
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Rensselaer
Towns	Sand Lake, Schodack
Source
- location	Sand Lake, New York
- coordinates	42°36′21″N 73°35′10″W / 42.60583°N 73.58611°W / 42.60583; -73.58611
Mouth	Hudson River
- location	Castleton-on-Hudson, New York
- elevation	0 ft (0 m)
- coordinates	42°32′36″N 73°45′14″W / 42.54333°N 73.75389°W / 42.54333; -73.75389

The Moordener Kill^[1] is a 15.5-mile-long (24.9 km)^[2] tributary to the Hudson River that flows through southwestern Rensselaer County, New York, in the United States. Moordener Kill translates to "Murderer Creek", because the word moordener is the Dutch word for "murderer". The name comes from the fact that the creek was the site of an ambush of Dutch settlers by Native Americans in 1643 in which 7 men and 2 women were killed.^[3]

See also

• List of rivers of New York

References

1. ^ 957592 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Moordener Kill
2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed October 3, 2011
3. ^ "Moordener Kill". http://nyfalls.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2887&start=0. Retrieved 2010-10-22.