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  • cmadsen
    From the Dutch for "on a meadow." During the Depression, the Federal Writers Program of the WPA produced a book of place name origins, from which I got this information.
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  • pianoman43
    Dutch "tiene vly" meaning "ten swamps" according to O'Connor, Ian. If You're Thinking of Living in: Tenafly, The New York Times, April 24, 1988
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