What's in a Name? Wincopin

Wincopin Trails is part of the Murray Hill Stream Valley Park.1  It is unknown how long it has existed but it was improved by youth programs in the 1980s with the intent to connect the Wincopin Neck Trail with the Savage Mill Trail.2  

Wincopin  trails was named for the original land settlement called Wincopin Neck owned by brothers Benjamin and Richard Warfield in 1701 (see map to right).3  The meaning of Wincopin may be from a Nanticoke dialect meaning “bear”.4  

Sources

1 Howard County GIS. https://data.howardcountymd.gov/ Accessed 10-1-2021

2 1985 December 26. Juveniles aiming for right trail. The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) 26 Dec 1985, Thursday  Page 55. Printed on Oct 1, 2021. Newspapers.com

3 1701 December 23. Wincopin Neck Survey and Land Certificate to Benjamin and Richard Warfield.  Liber DD5 Folio 61.  MDSA se23_40.  http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se23/000000/000040/pdf/mdsa_se23_40.pdf

4 Brinton, Daniel G. 1893. A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Jul-Dec. 1893, Volume 142. pp 32-333. See page 328.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/982971