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>allam; county in Texas, named for James W. Dallam, the lawyer who made the 
first digest of Texas law s. 
)allas; county in Alabama, named for A.J. Dallas, Secretary of the Treasury under 
President Madison. 
Dallas; counties in Arkansas, Iowa, and Missouri; town in Gaston County, North 
Carolina, and county, and town in same county, in Texas; 
Dallas Center; town in Dallas County, Iowa. Named for ( reorge M. Dallas, Vice- 
President under President Polk. 
)alles; city in Wasco County, Oregon, named from the dalles on the Columbia 
River. 
)alles; the name given by the Hudson Day Company to deep chasms in rocks 
forming a narrow passage for rivers. A French word meaning "flagstone," 
"slab," also a "spout for water" or "trough." The most famous dalles are on 
the Columbia River, Oregon. 
)almatia; town in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, named from the titular 
kingdom of Austria. 
)alton; towns in Whitfield County, Georgia, and Berkshire County, [Massachusetts, 
named for Gen. Tristram Dalton, speaker of the house of representatives of 
Massachusetts. 
)alton; village in Chariton County, Missouri, named for William Dalton. 
)alton; town in Coos County, New Hampshire, named for Hon. Tristram Dalton, 
a grantee. 
>aly; mountain in Colorado, named forjudge Charles P. Daly, formerly president 
of the American Geographical Society. 
>aly; county in Montana, named for Marcus Daly. 
>amariscotta; river, and town in Lincoln County, in Maine. An Indian name 
meaning "alewife place" or "river of little fishes." 
lamascus; town in Placer County, California, and thirteen other towns and vi I lag< ■>, 
named from the ancient city in Syria, 
lana; village in Lasalle County, Illinois, named for a railroad official. 
>ana; town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named for the family of which 
Chief Justice Francis Dana was a member. 
>anbury; city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and several other places, named 
from the town in Essex, England. 
>anby; town in Rutland County, Vermont, named from Danby, England. 
>andridge; town in Jefferson County, Tennessee, named for the maiden name of 
the wife of George Washington, Mrs. Martha Custis, nee Dandridge. 
>ane; county, and village in same county, in Wisconsin, named tor Nathan Dane, 
an American jurist and a member of Congress. 
>anforth; township and village in Iroquois County, Illinois, named for George M. 
Danforth, its founder, 
►anielson; borough in Windham County, Connecticut, named for Gen. .lames Dan- 
ielson, the builder of the first house in the settlement. 
►anielsville ; town in Madison County, Georgia, named for Gen. Allen Daniel. 
>annebrog-; village in Howard County, Nebraska, settled by Danes from Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, 
lannemora; town in Clinton County, New York, named from the celebrated iron 
region in Sweden. 
>ansville; town in Steuben County, and village in Livingston County, New York, 
named for Daniel P. Faulkner, who laid out the village. 
)anube; town in Herkimer County, New York, named from the river in Austria. 
>anvers; township and village in McLean County, Illinois, named from the town 
in Massachusetts. 
