gannett.] PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. 17 
Adams; counties in Iowa and Mississippi; peak of the White Mountains in New 
Hampshire; village in Herkimer County and town in Jefferson County, New 
York; county in Ohio; point at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon; 
county in Pennsylvania; and county and mountain in Washington; named for 
President John Adams. 
Adams; town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, named for Samuel Adams. 
Adams; village in Gage County, Nebraska, named for an early settler, .1. ( ). Adams. 
Adams; town in Robertson County, Tennessee, named for the owner of the town 
site, Reuben Adams. 
Adams, J. 0,.; peak in New Hampshire, named for President John Quincy Adams. 
Adamsboro; village in Cass County, Indiana, named for George E. Adams, its 
founder. 
(Adamsburg; borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; 
Adamstown; borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Said to have been 
named for President John Adams. 
Addison; towns in Washington County, Maine, and Steuben County, Xew York, 
township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and county, and town in same 
county, in Vermont, named for the English writer, Joseph Addison. 
Addison; town in Webster County, West Virginia, named for Addison McLaughlin, 
a prominent lawyer. 
Adel; town in Dallas County, Iowa. So named from its situation on a dell of North 
Raccoon River; formerly written Adell. 
Adelante; post-office in Napa County, California. A Spanish word meaning 
"forward," "onward." 
Adena; town in Jefferson County, Ohio, named for the home or country seatof the 
late Governor Worthington, of Ohio, which was in Ross County. The word 
means "paradise." 
Adirondacks; village in Warren County, and mountains, in New York. Derived 
from the Canienga (Mohawk) Iroquois language, in which the original form is 
ratirontaks, meaning "bark eaters." 
Admiralty; inlet in Washington named by Vancouver, the English explorer, for 
incumbent in the Admiralty. 
Adobe; station in Kern County, California. A Spanish word meaning a "sun- 
dried brick." 
Adrian; city in Lenawee County, Michigan, named for the Roman Emperor 
Hadrian or Adrian. 
Advance; village in Boone County, Indiana, named in anticipation of the Midland 
Railroad passing through the region. 
-ffitna Hot Springs; village and springs in Napa County, California, named from 
Mount iEtna in Sicily. 
Afton; town in Union County, Iowa, laid out in L854 and named by Mrs. Baker, 
wife of one of the proprietors, from the little river in Scotland immortalized by 
Burns. Many other places bear the same name. 
Agamenticus; mountain in York County, Maine. An Indian word meaning "on 
the other side of the river." 
Agassiz; mountains in Arizona and New Hampshire, named for Louis .1. \l. Agassiz, 
the Swiss naturalist. 
Agate; bay in Lake Superior, Michigan, and creek in Yellowstone Park, bo named 
from the agates found in them. 
Agawam; river, and town in Hampden County, in Massachusetts. An Indian 
word meaning "lowland," "marsh," or "meadow." 
Agency; town in Wapello County, Iowa, and village in Buchanan County, Mis- 
souri, which were formerly Indian agencies. 
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