Tamaqua High School - Sphinx Yearbook (Tamaqua, PA)

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l92 7fWTw 'ffxfilll' ig' iw 5' - 1 We 'Xt , 8 SPHINX F-rn' :aaa , ff ' If, 4 4 n Q lv F 'I 1' 'I It ll 1 1 k , , K MF J yl iilrlli ,yu A Word of Explanation The original Indian inhabitants of the region in which Tamaqua is located, were a division of the Lenape or Delaware Indians who lived in Pennsylvania. This small clan was known as the Munsee or Wolf clan. The origin of the names of many towns in Eastern Pennsylvania is attributed directly to names used by these Indians to identify a spot which they knew, perhaps as a good hunting or camping ground or because of some event, which had taken place there. Tuscarora, familiar to us, was the cognomen of an Indian tribe which had camped and left their tribal name to the spot now occupied by the town of Tuscarora. The beautiful mountain country in this district was then filled with many large and pretgf waterfallsi some of which formed a small creek running through a sheltered cup-like valley hidden among several mountains. This spot made an ideal camping ground, protected as it was from cold winds and bountifully provided with game, wood and sparkling clear water. The Indians, to designate this place called it Tamaqua which meant in their language falling water. When later a town was founded by white settlers this name persisted and was interpreted by the whites as running water. . From the origin of the name of our town, the 1928 Sphinx derives its theme. The book divisions are headed by pictures of some of the greatest waterfalls in the world, while the habits, customs and implements of the Lenapes are illustrated in other draw- ings. These drawings as well as the border design indicate that the Indians who inhabited this section of our state were an agricultural group, skilled however in the making of pottery and other Indian arts. They fought defensively but were not ag- gressively warlike and in general were much the same in their life habits as we are today. ' Therefore to give a new understanding from whence came the name which our high school bears, the theme of this book is based upon the definition of the Indian name of our Alma Mater-to us, the most fair. va , . F-zyg -,I AMW. x4AAa - f xyrl .is Page Szx

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