Sacony Creek

Sacony Creek[1] (historically Saucony Creek) is a 17.4-mile-long (28.0 km)[2] tributary of Maiden Creek in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It flows through the borough of Kutztown, and is the main water source there.

Sacony is a name derived from a Native American language purported to mean "place of outlet".[3]

The Kutz Mill and Kutz's Mill Bridge are located on Sacony Creek in Greenwich Township.[4]

The shoe manufacturer Saucony is named after Sacony Creek, as the company was founded on the banks of the Sacony in 1898, in Kutztown.

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sacony Creek
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  3. ↑ Wagner, A. E.; Balthaser, Francis Wilhauer; Hoch, D. K. (1913). The Story of Berks County (Pennsylvania). Eagle Book and Job Press. p. 28.
  4. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Phoebe Hopkins (June 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Kutz Mill" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.

Coordinates: 40°31′31″N 75°52′29″W / 40.52529°N 75.87465°W / 40.52529; -75.87465


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