Legler—Wisconsin Place-Names. 
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Pahjetakakening-—The water that falls over rocks, now 
known as Little Bull Palls. (C) 
Penokee (O-pin-uh-keeng) —Land or country of potatoes. 
(W) 
Pewaubic ( Bee-wa-bick ) —Iron;. ( W ) 
Pew r aukee—The flinty place; pronounced by the Indians 
Pee-wau-naw-kee. (Louis Moran.) 
- (Pjewaukee-wee-ning)—Lake of shells or snails. (L) 
Pishtaka.—Pox. (L) 
Plover—Indian name is Aupuhkirakanewe, Biver of Plags. 
(C) 
Plymouth—Pirst. called Springfield; renamed after Ply¬ 
mouth, Conn. (Plymouth Beporter, Dec. 10, 1872.) 
Port Washington—Pirst called Wisconsin City, then Wash¬ 
ington City, in 1844 Port Washington. 
Prairie du Chien—Dog’s prairie, from the namje of a Sauk 
chief. (A B) 
- Prairie des Chiens—Hear the mouth of the Ouiscon- 
sin; signifies dog plains. (Jonathan Carver.) 
Puckaway—Perhaps a contraction of Bo-kuhn-za-wa, an un¬ 
clean disease. Indian names frequently betray shameless un¬ 
cleanness. (W) 
Racine—-From the French equivalent for root. The river 
was called Boot Biver. 
- St. Cosme called the Boot Biver at Racine Kipikwi 
and Kipikuskwi; it has also been called Chippecotton or Schip- 
icoten as Mrs. Storrow termed in it 1817, the signification of 
which we have heard was “maskalonge.” We have seen it 
called in print “Masquedon.” (Hurlbut’s Chicago Antiqui¬ 
ties, p. 441.) 
Wisconsin—Gov. Doty, one of the territorial governors, used 
to insist on the name being written Wiskonsan, but the mode 
was unpopular, and the legislature irrevocably established the 
form of its orthography as Wisconsin. (Hurlbut’s Chicago 
Antiquities, p. 441.) (See Introduction.) 
Shawano—In the South. (Y) 
—— (Zha-wun-no) —The southerner. (W) 
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