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Hudson—Called Buena Vista, Willow River, and finally 
Hudson (Hall’s Hudson.) 
Janesville—In honor of Henry Janes, first postmaster. 
(Janesville Illustrated, p. 5.) 
Kaukauna (Oh-ga-ka-ning)—The place of pike. (W) 
-At the place where pickerel are caught. (K) 
-Kawkawnin, literally “Can’t get up,” in Menominee 
tongue. Called Cocolo by Canadians voyageurs “who ruin ev¬ 
ery Indian word they meet with.” (Featherstonhaugh, Vol. 1, 
p. 162 .) 
Kegonsa, (Gee^-go-sug)—Little fishes. (W) 
Kenosha (Gin-no-zha)—Pickerel. (W) 
- Pickerel or pike. (V) 
-Keinauehe. Algonquin name for the fish known as 
pike; applied to a clan of Ottawas having that fish as its totem. 
From this is derived the name of Kenosha. (J. R., v. 54.) 
Kewaskum— (Gee-way-skum)—His tracks are homeward. 
(W) 
- Kan led after an old chief who died there. (History 
of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, p. 4-36.) 
-The road is crooked. (V) 
Kewaunee—Prairie hen (formerly known as Wood’s River). 
(H) 
-I cross a point of land by boat. (V) 
Kishwake—Cottonwood. ( Long) 
Koshkonong—The lake u T e live on. Black Hawk’s lurking 
place in 1832. (II) 
Lac Court Oreille—Short ears, from a hand of Ottawas, 
who cut off the rims of their ears. (A B.) 
La Crosse^—Etymology doubtful. It is said that when the 
pioneer Kathan Myrick ran his flat-boat ashore at the point now 
known as the foot of Main street he found a cross fastened to a 
pine stumps—doubtless an emblem planted there by some wan¬ 
dering Catholic priest. Thus the name Le Croix was given the 
spot, afterwards anglicized into La, Crosse. The Winnebago 
Indians knew the city only as the “Woman’s Bosom,” because 
east of the city two cone-shaped points rear their heights from 
the bluffs, and can be seen many miles from several directions. 
