Maurer, who interacts with a range of people working as a store clerk in the town, said it was immediately obvious who wasn’t from the area by the way they pronounced the town’s name. “They always said, Kī-rō is in Egypt, CARE-oh is in NY,” she said. Heather Maurer, who has lived in the area her whole life, said there was a standard way of explaining the distinction when she was in school. This town, located in the lowlands of Greene County, must deal with sharing its name with a slightly more notable municipality. “And someone said, ‘How about Accord?’ - and everyone said OK.” Cairo (CARE -oh), Greene County “They couldn’t agree on a name, and, finally, in dismay, someone suggested they name it ‘Discord,’” Fried said. Marc Fried, a local historian and author of the book Shawangunk Place-Names said the new toponym sprang from a community meeting over what to name the place when the first post office was being constructed. Merchant speculates the location was specifically named Port Jackson after Andrew Jackson, the populist president at the time.Īfter the canal closed at the end of the 19th century, residents renamed some of the communities. This resulted in a lot of them being named “Port-something,” due to their function at the time, which is why there are still places named “Port Jervis” hours away from the sea. As one of the few privately owned canals of the era, the canal’s leadership got the bonus of being able to name communities along the route, according to Merchant. In the 1820s, the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company constructed a water route from Honesdale, Pa., to Kingston to transport coal to the Hudson River.

The location was originally known by early American residents as “Port Jackson,” according to D&H Canal Museum Deputy Director of Collections Bill Merchant. Tucked behind the western slope of the Shawangunk Ridge along the Rondout Creek in central Ulster County, this hamlet’s name is pronounced with the first syllable heavily stressed, distinguishing it from the noun meaning “treaty.” We’ve talked to historians and other locals about the origins of different place-names in the Hudson Valley and Catskills, and how they’ve evolved to be pronounced the way they are today. Let this guide help you to not make similar mistakes.

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