Vlaie

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Vlaie, Vly or Fly is the Dutch vlaie, meaning a swamp.[1] It also applies to creeks and mountains in the vicinities.[2] The term appears in place names in areas of Dutch influence in North America, such as the Hudson Valley. The modern Dutch term is vlie.

Place names

Examples of names of swamps, streams, lakes, and mountains which contain "vlaie", or "vly":

New York

  • Franklinton Vlaie - a swamp in Schoharie County which feeds the Catskill Creek.
  • The Vlaie - the area surrounding the Franklington Vlaie.
  • Vly Mountain, one of the Catskill High Peaks, in Greene County
  • Consalus Vly - a swamp in Saratoga County.
  • Gayhead Vly - a swamp in Greene County near Leeds.
  • Vly Creek - a stream in Delaware County.
  • Vly Creek - a stream in Albany County.
  • Vleigh Place - a street in Kew Gardens Hills in Queens County.
  • Great Vly - a swamp in Greene County which feeds the Sawyer Kill.
  • Vly Swamp - a swamp in Ulster County.
  • Miner Mill Vly - A Beaver Flow in Saratoga County
  • Fifteen typonyms for swamps in Hamilton County.[3]

Other place names in New York using the toponym Fly

  • Fly Creek, Fly Summit, and Fly Swamp - also known as Vly Creek, Vly Summit, and Vly Swamp, in Washington County.
  • Fly Market in New York City - which may give the original meaning to "flea market".[4][5][6]
  • Fly Creek, Fly Pond, and Fly Brook in Broome County.
  • Fly Swamp, or Vly Swamp, or "The Vly" - a swamp in Washington County.
  • The Fly - a swamp in Otsego County.
  • Rossman Fly - another name for Rossman Pond.
  • The Old Fly - a swamp in Washington County.
  • Shaw Fly - a swamp in Washington County.

New Jersey

  • Bog and Vly Meadows - a swamp near Pompton Plains in Pequannock Township.
  • The town of Tenafly - a town in northern New Jersey meaning "Ten Swamps".
  • Burnt Fly Bog - a swamp on the border of Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey.
  • Polifly - translated as "top of the meadow/atop the swamp"; the name by which Hasbrouck Heights was known during the American Colonial period.[7] Polifly Road is a major thoroughfare connecting Hackensack and Hasbrouck Heights.

Out of use

  • Sacandaga Vlaie - marshland now flooded by the Great Sacandaga Lake by the building of the Conklingville Dam.
  • The Vlaie or "Great Marsh" south of Oneida Lake in Madison County, New York. Also known as Canaseraga Lake and was more than fifteen thousand acres before it was drained by pioneers in the 1800s by the digging of the Douglass Ditch to Lake Oneida.[8]
  • Head of the Fly - is the area in southern Flushing, Queens, New York,[9] now known as Kew Gardens Hills. A road through the neighborhood, is still called Vleigh Place.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Old Dutch place names from, ancestry.com.
  2. ↑ GNIS.
  3. ↑ USGS
  4. ↑ "History Blog Insight into History, A Weekly Instrospective Into The Past". 
  5. ↑ "Flea Markets in Arkansas". Arkansas Arts and Crafts. Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism. 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-11. 
  6. ↑ The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West ..., Volume 3., By Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson, p. 409., 1812
  7. ↑ Cassidy, Catherine (2006). Images of America; Hasbrouck Heights. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4474-4. ,
  8. ↑ History of Madison County, state of New York, by Luna M. Hammond, Luna M. Hammond Whitney, pp. 647-651.
  9. ↑ 1853 Map of Flushing
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