FROM THE DESK OF: Yonkers Newswire Journalist Brian Harrod.

 

YONKERS HISTORY: The first residents of the City of Yonkers were Native Americans of the Algonquin, Mohegan and Manhattes tribes. Their village of Nappeckamack (meaning rapid water settlement) was located where the Neperah stream (the present day Saw Mill River) flowed into the Hudson or Shatemuck River. By the time Henry Hudson made contact with Native Americans in 1609, the natives had lived there for at least 3,000 years. https://www.facebook.com/groups/YonkersNewswire/posts/3528900784034141/