Editing Arthur Kill (section)

== Etymology ==
The name  Arthur Kill is an [[Anglicisation|anglicization]] of  the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] ''achter kill'' meaning ''back channel'', which would refer to its location "behind" Staten Island and has its roots in the early 17th century during the [[Netherlands|Dutch colonial]] era when the region was part of [[New Netherland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/118047403/Bayonne-South-Hudson|title = Bayonne & South Hudson &#124; PDF &#124; Jersey City &#124; New Jersey}}</ref> Placenaming by early explorers and settlers during the era often referred to a location in reference to other places, its shape, its topography, and other geographic qualities.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wardell |first=Patricia A. |title=A Dictionary of Bergen County Place Names in Bergen County, New Jersey and Vicinity |publisher=dutchdoorgenealogy.com |url=http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com/bergen_county_new_jersey_dictionary_place_names.pdf}}</ref> ''[[Kill (body of water)|Kill]]'' comes from the Middle [[Dutch language|Dutch]] word ''kille'', meaning ''riverbed'', ''water channel'', or ''stream''. The area around the [[Newark Bay]] was called [[Achter Kol, New Netherland|Achter Kol]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://millburnlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/HistoryMillburnTownshipEbook.pdf|title=A History of Millburn Township|chapter=III: THE COUNTRY BEFORE SETTLEMENT|author=Marian Meisner|date=July 5, 2002}}</ref> During the British colonial era the bay was known as ''Cull bay''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grabas |first=Joseph A. |title=Land Speculation and Proprietary Beginnings of New Jersey |journal=The Advocate |volume=XVI |issue=4 |pages=3, 20, 14 |publisher=New Jersey Land Title Association |url=http://www.njlta.org/Dec2004.pdf |access-date=April 15, 2010}}</ref> The bay lies behind [[Bergen Hill]], the emerging ridge of the [[Hudson Palisades]] which begins on [[Bergen Neck]], the peninsula between it and the [[Upper New York Bay]]. The sister channel of Arthur Kill,  [[Kill van Kull]], refers to the waterway that flows from the  ''col'' or ''ridge'' or ''[[mountain pass|passage]]'' to the interior and translates as ''channel from the pass'' or ''ridge''.