66 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Campbellsville ; city in Taylor County, Kentucky, named for Adam Campbell, the 
first settler. 
Campello; town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. An Indian word meaning 
' ' cedar tree. ' ' 
Camp Grant; town and fort in Humboldt County, California, named for Gen. U. S. 
Grant. 
Camp Grove; village in Marshall County, Illinois, named from its location on a 
favorite camping ground of emigrants on their journey westward. 
Camp Hill; borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, so named because the 
seat of a soldiers' orphan school. 
Camp Knox; village in Green County, Kentucky, named from a camp of Col. James 
Knox and 22 men, in 1770. 
Campo; town in San Diego County, California. A Spanish word meaning "field" 
or "plain." 
Campo Seco; town in Calaveras County, California, so named from the general 
character of its surroundings. A Spanish name meaning "dry plain." 
Camp Point; township and village in Adams County, Illinois, so named from its 
location on an Indian camping ground. 
Campton; town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, so called because the first sur- 
veyors of the site built a camp on the present town site. 
Canaan; town in Litchfield County, Conneticut, and fourteen other towns and 
villages, given the name of the " Promised Land" of the Israelites. 
Canada; villages in Marion County, Kansas, Pike County, Kentucky, and Muskegon 
County, Michigan, named from the Dominion of Canada. Authorities differ as 
to the derivation of this name. Father Hennepin says the Spaniards were the 
original discoverers of the country, but upon landing they were disappointed in 
the general appearance and expressed their feelings by saying, // capa di 
nada, "Cape nothing." Sir John Barlow says the Portuguese, who first ascended 
the St. Lawrence, believing it to be a passage to the Indian sea, expressed their 
disappointment when they discovered their mistake by saying Canada, 
" Nothing here." This the natives are said to have remembered and repeated 
to the Europeans who arrived later, who thought it must be the name of the 
country. Dr. Shea says the Spanish derivation is fictitious. Some think it was 
named for the first man to plant a colony of French in the country, Monsieur 
Cana. Charlevoix says the word originated with the Iroquois Indians, kanata, oi 
kanada, "a collection of huts," "a village," "a town," which the early explorei 
mistook for the name of the country. Other etymologies propose the twc 
Indian words, Kan, "a mouth," and ada, "a country," hence "the mouth of 
the country," originally applied to the mouth of the St. Lawrence. There is 
respectable authority that the name was first applied to the river. Lescarbot 
tells us that the Gasperians and Indians who dwelt on the borders of the bay of 
Chaleur called themselves Canadaquea; that the word meant "province" or "coun- 
try." Sweetser says that the word came from the Indian caughnawaugh, "the 
village of the rapids. ' ' Brant, the Indian chieftain, who translated the gospel into 
his own language, used the word Canada for "village." Another authority gives 
it as derived from Canada del osos, meaning "bear's pass," and this was used, per- 
haps a century ago, by Spanish priests as an equivalent of "pass" or "gap." 
Canadawa; creek in Chautauqua County, New York. An Indian word, meaning 
"running through the hemlocks." 
Canadian; town in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, county in Oklahoma, river 
traversing both Territories, and village in Hemphill County, Texas. A Spanish 
word, diminutive of canyon, meaning "steep-sided gorge." 
Canajoharie; town in Montgomery County, New York. This name was originally 
given to a deep hole of foaming water at the foot of one of the falls in Canajo- 
