north. They are the only known Ice Age mastodon specimens found in Union County, New Jersey. Great Minisink Trail Certain Native Americans lived most of the year in the Delaware Valley, and came to the coast only at certain seasons to hunt and fish. The Great Minisink Trail was a path for Lenape travel that stretched from to the Council Fire of Minisink Island on the Delaware River to the tidal area of Claypit Creek Park in Navesink not far from the beaches of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. In the Cranford area, the trail, which stayed west of the Rahway River, passed over Nomahegan Brook near where today's Lenape Park meets Echo Lake Park. It then traveled south, keeping east of the pond at Fairview Cemetery. Inside the Cranford line, it passed near a spring on what is now Indian Spring Road over what was once the farm of Gideon Ludlow off Gallows Hill Road. The Lenape called the Cranford area Wawahakewany or 'place where eggs are found.' On the land east of Fairview Cemetery (Westfield, New Jersey), it is reported that an Indian burial ground was located. The Old York Road The Cranford Pepperidge Tree At the side of the Old York Road grew "Old Peppy", the official tree of the Township of Cranford in what is now Lincoln Park (formerly the 1899-era grounds of the Cranford Golf Club, now moved to Westfield and called the Echo Lake Country Club). Felled in April 2015 out of safety concerns, the tree was a Nyssa sylvatica, also known as a black tupelo, tupelo, black gum, sour gum or pepperidge tree. A cross section of its trunk is preserved in a gazebo in Lincoln Park. Apparently in connection with the controversy surrounding the removal of "Old Peppy," a copper commemorative plaque was stolen from Lincoln Park. The plaque had been mounted by the Cranford Historical Society on a rock near the tree and was originally placed in 1964. Since the removal of the tree on April 21, 2015, the plaque was all that remained to remind Cranford of the tree's history. The Rock Boundary rock etched by surveyors in 1699 during the grant of the "West fields" in Nomahegan Park. Crane's Mills Site A component of the Rahway River Parkway just north of the North Union Avenue bridge, this was the site of the two Crane family mills that gave the village