 The Little Schuylkill River was known as the Tamauguay Creek or River in the 18th and early to mid 19th centuries.This name derives from the Lenni Lenape word for “beaver” (tëmakwe or tamaqua) and also the Lenni Lenape method for using “hunter’s hints” thus identifying it as the “place of the beavers”.As the land became settled by Europeans, this Schuylkill River tributary was then referred to as the Little Schuylkill River – Schuylkill coming from the Dutch language meaning “hidden river”.