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harie Creek. An Indian word meaning "kettle that washes itself," or "kettle- 
shaped hole in a rock." Morgan says the meaning is "washing the basin." 
lanal; town in Venango County, Pennsylvania, so named because traversed by the 
Franklin Canal. 
lanal de Haro; canal in Washington, named for the Spanish explorer, Lopez de 
Haro. 
lanal Dover; village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, situated on the Ohio (anal and 
named from the city in New Jersey. 
lanal Lewisville; town in Coshocton County, Ohio, named for T. B. Lewis, who 
founded it. 
lanandaig-ua; village in Lenawee County, Michigan, and lake and town in Ontario 
County, New York. An Indian word, the deriviation of which is in dispute. 
Morgan gives canandargua, "place selected for settlement," "chosen spot;" 
Haines, "town set off," while another theory is that it is corrupted from the 
Seneca Indian, genundewahguah, "great hill people," so called from a large hill 
near the lake. 
lanaseraga; village in Allegany County, New York. From an Indian word, kana- 
sawaga, "several strings of beads with a string lying across." 
lanastota; villages in Madison County, New York, and McCook County, South 
Dakota. An Indian word, kniste, or kanetota, "pine tree standing alone." The 
New York village took its name from a cluster of pines that united their 
branches over the creek which passes through the town. 
lanavaral; cape, and village in Brevard County, in Florida. A Spanish word mean- 
ing "cane plantation." 
lanby; town in Modoc County, California, and city in Clackamas County, Oregon, 
named for General Canby, United States Army, who was treacherously mur- 
dered by Modoc Indians. 
landelaria; post-offices in Esmeralda County, Nevada, and Presidio County, Texas. 
The Mexican name for a species of branching cactus. 
landia; town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, named from the island in 
the Mediterranean w here Governor Wentworth was once a prisoner. 
laneadea; town in Allegany County, New York. An Indian word meaning 
"where the heavens rest upon the earth." 
laney ; city in Montgomery County, Kansas, villages in Morgan County, Kentucky, 
Vernon Parish, Louisiana, and Matagorda County, Texas, besides several other 
small places. This word is frequently used aloneand with the suffixes "branch," 
"spring," and "ville," in the Southern States, and refers to the cane which 
covers vast tracts of country in the alluvial bottoms. 
lanfield; village in Mahoning County, Ohio, named for one of the original proprie- 
tors, Jonathan Canfield. 
lanisteo; river and town in Steuben County, New York. An Indian word mean- 
ing ' ' board on the water. ' ' 
lankapoja; lake at the head of Vermilion River, South Dakota. An Indian word 
meaning "light wood." 
lannelburg-; town in Daviess County, Indiana, named for the Buckeye Cannel Coal 
Company. 
lannelton; city in Perry County, Indiana, village in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 
and town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, named from the beds of cannel 
coal in the vicinity. 
lannon; river in Minnesota. The name is a corruption of the name given by the 
early French, riviere aux canots, "river of the canoes." 
lannon; county in Tennessee, named for Newton Cannon, governor of the State in 
1835-39. 
lannonball; river in North Dakota, a translation of the French name, le boulet. 
