: >     I am curious about the origins of the name of the Mohawk Valley town
: >of Stone Arabia.  ...

George R Stewart (A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names, Oxford 1970)
says "probably by folk-etymology from Dutch _steenig-raapje_, `stony-turnip-
field.'  Cf Turnip Patch Point, Delaware, which is also in Dutch territory."

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