Lackawanna Explained

Lackawanna (; from a Lenni Lenape word meaning "stream that forks") is the name of various places and later businesses in the mid-Atlantic United States, generally tracing their name in some manner from the Lackawanna River in Pennsylvania.

Places

Inhabited places

Lackawanna, New York, a city in Erie County, New York, just south of Buffalo
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, a county in northeast Pennsylvania, of which the county seat is Scranton

Natural formations

Lackawanna River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania
Lake Lackawanna, Sussex County, NJ, a man-made lake (circa 1911) and golf course

Other places

Lackawanna Coal Mine, a former mine redeveloped as a museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Lackawanna College, a college in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Lackawanna State Park, in northeastern Pennsylvania
Lackawanna State Forest, former name of Pinchot State Forest

Railroads

Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, an extant shortline railroad operating in Northeastern Pennsylvania
Erie Lackawanna Railroad (1960–1968)
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (1853–1960), also known as the Lackawanna Railroad
Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad (1852–1873), 19th century railroad that ran between Scranton and Northumberland
Lackawanna and Western Railroad (1853–1960)
Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (1903–1976), third rail electric interurban streetcar line from 1903 to 1976

Arts

The Lackawanna Valley, a circa 1855 painting by George Inness
Lackawanna Blues, a 2001 Ruben Santiago-Hudson play that was adapted as a 2005 television movie

Other uses

, two ships in the U.S. navy
Lackawanna (Front Royal, Virginia), a historic home in Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia
Lackawanna Steel Company, a former steel company that started in Scranton then moved to western New York