What’s In A Name: The Butternut Valley

I've been exploring the area I grew up in. It's been very interesting.

(Butternut Creek in the Butternut Valley near Gilbertsville. Photo: Jan Costello)

The Haudenosaunee, called the “Iroquois” by the French, settled in what is today upstate NY and parts of New England and Canada centuries before the Europeans showed up. One of the five (and later six) tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederacy, the Mohawks called the eas…