196 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
the building of the town of Madera, it was named from the town, which was a 
lumber center. 
Madison; counties in Alabama, Arkansas, and Florida; county, and city in Morgan 
County, in Georgia; counties in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa; township and city in 
Greenwood County, Kansas; county in Kentucky; parish in Louisiana; town in 
Somerset County, Maine; counties in Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, and 
Nebraska; town in Carroll County, New Hampshire; counties in New York, 
North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia; city in Dane County, 
Wisconsin; and peak in the White Mountains; named for President James 
Madison. 
Madison; city in Lake County, South Dakota, named from the city in Wisconsin, 
because of its proximinity to several lakes. 
Madrone; town in Santa Clara County, California. From madrona, an evergreen 
tree of northern California. 
Mag-alloway; river in New Hampshire. An Indian word meaning "large tail." 
Mag-ataukamde ; lake in Minnesota. An Indian word meaning "swan lake." 
Magnolia; town in Kent County, Delaware, and twenty-five other towns and vil- 
lages, being generally named, directly or indirectly, for Dr. Pierre Magnol, for 
whom the species of magnolia tree was named. 
Magoffin; county in Kentucky, named for Beriah Magoffin, a former governor. 
Magothy; river in Maryland. An Indian word meaning "small plain devoid of 
timber." 
Mahanoy; mountain and river tributary to the Susquehanna, Schuylkill County, 
Pennyslvania; 
Mahanoy City; borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. From the Delaware 
Indian mahoni, "a lick," a survival of the expression to describe saline 
deposits where deer congregate. 
Mahantango; branch of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania. A Delaware Indian 
word meaning "where we had plenty of meat to eat." 
Mahaska; county in Iowa, named for a chief of the Iowas. 
Mahomet; village in Champaign County, Illinois, named for the founder of the 
Mohammedan religion. 
Mahon; village in Marshall County, Mississippi, named for John Mahon. 
Mahoning*; county and river in eastern Ohio. From the Delaware Indian word 
mahonink, meaning "there a lick," applied to many places of saline deposits. 
Mahtowa; town in Carlton County, Minnesota, named from the Indian word mean- 
ing "grass lands." 
Maiden Rock; village in Pierce County, Wisconsin, named for Lie rock, famous in 
Indian legends, from which it is said an Indian maiden leaped to escape mar- 
riage with a warrior of another tribe. 
Maidstone; town in Essex County, Vermont, named from the town in Kent, 
England. 
Maine; State of the Union, said to be named for the private estate of Henrietta 
Maria, in Maine, a province of France; or, according to another authority, so 
called because the fishermen of the islands along the coast referred to the main- 
land as tin- main, and in some early documents it was spelled Mayn. 
Makage; western tributary of the Minnesota River. From an Indian word, makagij 
meaning "brown earth." 
Makanda; township and village in Jackson County, Illinois, named for an Indian 
chief. 
Makiapier; pond in New Jersey. An Indian word meaning "water of a reddish 
color." 
Malade; river and village in Oneida County, Idaho. A French word meaning 
"sick" or "infirm." 
