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A History of Lenapehoking Lodge Order of the Arrow Northern New Jersey Council #333 Boy Scouts of America A HISTORY OF LENAPEHOKING LODGE ORDER OF THE ARROW NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COUNCIL #333 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA A HISTORY OF LENAPEHOKING LODGE ORDER OF THE ARROW NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COUNCIL #333 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA by THOMAS E. REDDIN 2016 Printing LENAPEHOKING LODGE HISTORY The Northern New Jersey Council #333, headquartered in Oakland, NJ, is the result of the mergers of twenty-two different councils as well as five additional councils which closed without a direct successor, which occurred between 1919 (the date of the first merger) and 1999, the date of the merger that led to the Northern New Jersey Council. There were eleven different OA lodges founded within these councils and several additional merged lodges before a single lodge was formed. • The Bayonne Council #332 was founded in 1918. Pamrapaugh Lodge (14) was chartered to this council in 1921. Its totem was the seagull and its name was that of a local tribe.. • Two small councils were formed in the vicinity of Union City in 1917, the Leonia Council (no number) and the Weehawken Council. These two councils merged in 1919 to form the North Hudson Council #351, headquartered in Union City. Chinchewunska Lodge (440) was chartered to this council in 1950. Its totem was the tulip poplar leaf. Its name was Delaware for “side hill town”, chosen because the council camp, Camp Towadena was located on the side of a hill. • Two other small councils were founded in the Hoboken area in 1917, the West Hoboken Council and the West New York Council. Both of these councils disbanded in 1919. In 1921, the Hoboken Council #341 was formed. No OA lodge or other camp honor society was associated with this council. • The Jersey City Council #342 was founded in 1918. Achtu Lodge (37) was chartered to this council in 1928 at the urging of the then Council Executive, Carol Edson, newly arrived from Chicago and one of the two founders of the Wimachtendinck (as the OA was known at that time). Its lodge totem as well as the translation of its name was the running deer. • The Passaic Council #354 was also founded in 1918. It changed its name to Aheka Council #354 in 1939. Aheka Lodge (359) was chartered to this council in 1947. Its lodge totem was the loon. The lodge name was Choctaw for “duty” or “obligation.” • The Paterson Council #355 was founded in 1915, and changed its name to the Paterson Area Council #355 in 1927 and to the Alhtaha Council #355 in 1942. Minisi Lodge (449) was chartered to this council in 1951. Its lodge totem was the turtle. Its name was a variant of the third clan of the Delaware, and it means “at the place where stones are gathered together”. • The Newark Council #349 began in 1915, and changed its name to the Robert Treat Council in 1933. Mohican Lodge (178) was chartered to this council in 1940. Its lodge totem was the gray wolf, and its name was that of a Native American tribe, best known from James Fennimore Cooper’s books. • The Oranges & Maplewood Area Council #337 was formed in 1933 by the merger of four older councils, and one council in its service area that dissolved without a successor. The predecessor councils were: o The Irvington Council (1917-1920) dissolved without a successor council, o The South Orange Council #345, founded in 1917, and changed its name to the Orange Mountain Council in 1918, o The West Orange Council #353, founded in 1917, o The East Orange Council #337, founded in 1915, and o The Caldwell Council # 334, founded in 1917. The Ken-Etiwa-Pec Lodge (362) was chartered to the Oranges & Maplewood Area Council in 1947. Its lodge totem was a pine tree with an arrow. The translation of its name was Lenape for “long pine pond”. The council changed its name to the Orange Mountain Council #337 in 1949. • The Eagle Rock Council #346 was formed by the merger of three other councils in 1931. The three councils were: o The Caldwell Council #334, founded in 1918, which changed its name to the Caldwell Council #820 in 1929. o The Glen Ridge Council # 340, founded in 1912, which changed its name to the Glen Ridge Council #821 in 1929, and o The Montclair Council #346, founded in 1913. Oleleu Lodge (515) was chartered to the Eagle Rock Council in 1955. Its lodge totem and the translation of its name was the bullfrog. • The Bloomfield-Nutley Council #333 was formed in 1929 from the merger of two other councils, the Nutley Council #352, and the Bloomfield Council #333, both founded in 1917. The council changed its name to the Tamarack Council #333 in 1935. In 1918, the Belleville Council was founded, changing its name to the South Bergen County #360 in 1919. This council merged dissolved in 1932, and its service area was absorbed by the Tamarack Council #333. In 1936, the Tamarack Lodge (84) was chartered to the Tamarack Council #333. It changed its name to the Wakanta Lodge (84) in 1950. Its lodge totem was the night hawk and its name was Sioux for “spirit”, which was represented by the night hawk. • The Ridgewood Council #359 was founded in 1915, and changed its name to the Ridgewood- Glen Rock Council in 1922. Iaoapogh Lodge (286) was chartered to this council in 1945. Its lodge totem was the wild dog. Iaoapogh, the namesake of the lodge was a Minisink sachem. • The River Edge Council and the Hackensack Council both began in 1917, and ended by 1919 without a successor. The North Bergen County Council #350 was founded in 1921. Two other councils merged into this council in 1925, the Englewood Council #339 (1919-1925) and the Tentafly Council # 361 (1920-1924). Oratam Lodge (484) was chartered to the North Bergen Council in 1952. Its totem was a Native American. The council changed its name to the Bergen Council #350 in 1969. The modern council was formed through a series of mergers that gradually consolidated these councils into a single council: The Hoboken Council #341 and the Jersey City Council #342 merged in 1937 to form the Hudson Council #342, based in Jersey City. As the Hoboken Council did not have a pre-existing OA lodge, the merged council continued to charter Achtu Lodge (37). The Alexander Hamilton Council # 351 and the Hudson Council #342 merged in 1969 to form the Hudson-Hamilton Council #348, still based in Jersey City. Chinchewunska Lodge (440) and Achtu Lodge (37) also merged to form Elauwit Lodge (37), keeping the lower of the two numbers of the merging lodges. The new lodge’s totem was the bear, and the lodge’s name meant “hunter”. The Aheka Council #354 and the Alhtaha Council #355 merged in 1974, to form the Passaic Valley Council #353, headquartered in Wayne. Aheka Lodge (359) and Minisi Lodge (449) to form Aquaninoncke Lodge (359), again keeping the lower of the two merging lodge’s number. Its totem was the hawk. Its name was Algonquian for “bush net fishing place”. Two years later, in 1976, the Robert Treat Council #349, the Orange Mountain Council #337 and the Eagle Rock Council #346 merged to form the Essex Council #336, based in Newark. The associated OA lodges, Mohican Lodge (178), Ken-Etiwa-Pec Lodge (362) and Oleleu Lodge (515) also merged to form Meechgalanne Lodge (178), again keeping the lowest number of the merging lodges. Its totem was also the hawk and its name was Lenape for hawk. In 1986, the Tamarack Council #333 dissolved, with half of the territory merging into the Essex Council #336, and half to the Bergen Council #350. Wakanta Lodge (84) also dissolved, and split into Meechgalanne Lodge (178) and Oratam Lodge (484). In 1993, Bayonne Council #332 and the Hudson-Hamilton Council #348 merged to form the Hudson- Liberty Council #348. Pamrapaugh Lodge (14) and Elauwit Lodge (37) also merged, to form Mantowagan Lodge (14), continuing to use the lower of the two merging lodge’s numbers. Its totem was two Native Americans in a canoe, and its name was Lenape for “those with spiritual power”. In 1997, the Ridgewood-Glen Rock Council #359 merged into the Bergen Council #350. Iaoapogh Lodge (286) and Oratam Lodge (484) also merged, to form Oratam Lodge (286), keeping the lodge name of the larger council, but using the lower of the two lodge numbers yet again. In 1999, the Hudson-Liberty Council #348, the Passaic Valley Council #353, the Essex Council #336 and the Bergen Council 350 merged to form the Northern New Jersey Council, re-using the #333 of the old Tamarack Council #333. The four OA lodges, Mantowagan Lodge (14), Aquaninoncke Lodge (359), Meechgalanne Lodge (178) and Oratam Lodge (286) merged to form Lenapehoking Lodge (9). The totem of the merged lodge is a Native American, who often appears in other costumes for NOAC and Jamboree patches. Its name means “Spirit of the Lenape”, and is a name used to describe the territory of the Lenni Lenape tribes. .There is some debate about the term, as it is not found in older source materials prior to being introduced by Nora Thompson Dean (Touching Leaves Woman) in 1984, in order to provide the archaeologist/author, Herbert C. Kraft, with a convenient term for the area once inhabited by ancestors of the Lenape people. Instead of using the (14) number of Mantowagan Lodge, the lowest number of the four merging lodges, the new lodge used the number (9) instead. This number had previously been used by Cowaw Lodge (9) from 1921 to 1969, which then merged with Sakawawin Lodge (287) to form Narraticong Lodge (9), which used the number until 1999, before that lodge merged with Sanhican Lodge (2) to form Sakuwit Lodge (2).
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