Editing Weehawken, New Jersey (section)

===Name===
The name ''Weehawken'' is generally considered to have evolved from the [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian language]] [[Lenape]] spoken by the [[Hackensack (Native Americans)|Hackensack]] and [[Tappan (Native Americans)|Tappan]]. It has variously been interpreted as "maize land", "place of gulls", "rocks that look like trees", which would refer to the [[The Palisades (Hudson River)|Palisades]], atop which most of the town sits, or "at the end", among other suggested translations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040317224225/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w4/weehawken-i.htm ''Weehawken''], [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]]. Accessed June 13, 2007. "A township in Hudson County, N.J., seven miles northeast of Jersey City. The name was originally an Algonquin Indian term and later changed by folk-usage to a pseudo-Dutch form. Its exact meaning is unclear, but variously translated as ''place of gulls,'' ''rocks that look like trees,'' ''maize land,'' ''at the end'' (of the Palisades) and ''field lying along the Hudson.''"</ref><ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=32 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 23, 2015.</ref><ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n25 <!-- pg=31 --> ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 31. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed October 23, 2015.</ref>

[[USS Weehawken|Three U.S. Navy ships]] have been named for the city. The [[USS Weehawken (1862)|USS ''Weehawken'']], launched on November 5, 1862, was a [[Passaic class monitor|''Passaic''-class monitor]], or ironclad ship, which sailed for the [[Union Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]], encountered battles at the [[Charleston, South Carolina]], coast and sank in a moderate gale on December 6, 1863.<ref>[http://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/USS_Weehawken.html USS WeehawkenCivil War Union Naval Ship], AmericanCivilWar.com. Accessed October 23, 2015.</ref> The ''Weehawken'' was the last ferry to the [[West Shore Railroad|West Shore Terminal]] on March 25, 1959, at 1:10&nbsp;am, ending 259 years of continuous ferry service.<ref name="Arthur G. Adams 1996"/> [[Weehawken Street (Manhattan)|Weehawken Street]] in [[Manhattan]]'s [[Greenwich Village]] was the site of a colonial [[Hudson River]] ferry landing.<ref>Apmann, Sarah Bean. [https://www.villagepreservation.org/2016/01/11/weehawken-street-historic-district-part-i/ "Weehawken Street Historic District, Part I"], Village Preservation, January 11, 2016. Accessed February 16, 2023. "Speculative New Yorkers bought lots on the east side of the planned Weehawken Street (named for the ferry connection to the New Jersey town) in anticipation of the market"</ref>

The name and the place have inspired mention in [[#In popular culture|multiple works]] of popular culture.