Like many places in Bucks County, Lahaska’s name and origins are steeped in the rich history of the Native Americans that once inhabited the area.

In his book “Place Names in Bucks County”, published by the Bucks County Historical Society in 1942, local historian and author George MacReynolds discussed the origins of the town’s name. Like many areas in Bucks County, the name is an Anglicized version of a Native American name, specifically the Lenni Lenape tribe that once habituated the area.

“Lahaska as a name has its origin in that of an Indian town on the banks of the creek (Lahaska), which the Lenapes called Lahaskeke or Lehaskeking, from the stem lehasik, to write or written, and eke, much, hence the meaning ‘the place of much writing,’ probably from the fact that some parley or treaty, or some important Indian picture writing, was made there,” MacReynolds said in his book.

“Besides raising miraculous cereal crops, the beautiful valley was productive of poets, who have taken plenty of poetic license with the spelling.”

Similar to the area’s Council Rock School District, itself named after the large rock where Native American tribes would cognate to discuss treaties and other important manners, Lahaska’s name indicates an important part of the history that the original habitats of the area had on the modern towns and boroughs that residents live in today.

Read more about the area’s name and history at LivingPlaces.com.