gannett.] PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. 255 
Provincetown; town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, incorporated as the 
Province Town, because the inhabitants were exempt from taxation. 
Provo; river, and town in Utah County, Utah; a contraction of the name— Provost— 
of the man for whom they were named. 
Prowers; county in Colorado, named for John W. Prowers, a prominent stockman 
and trader in early days. 
Psimmdse; several lakes in Minnesota, with wild rice growing on their banks. An 
Indian word, meaning " wild rice." 
Ptansinta; peninsula on Lac Traverse and the Minnesota River. An Indian word 
meaning "otter tail." 
Puckaway; lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin. An Indian word meaning 
"cat-tail flag." 
Puckety; stream in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. An Indian word meaning 
"throw it away." 
Pueblo; county, and city in same county, in Colorado. A Spanish word meaning 
"town" or "village." 
Puente; town, and range of hills in Los Angeles County, California. A Spanish 
word meaning "bridge." 
Puerco; river in New Mexico. A Spanish word meaning " hog." 
Puerto de Luna; village in San Miguel County, New Mexico. A Spanish phrase 
meaning "port of the moon." 
Pug-et; sound in Washington, named for Peter Puget, its discoverer. 
Pulaski; counties in Arkansas and Georgia; county, and town in same county, in 
Illinois; counties in Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri; village in Oswego County, 
New York; town in Giles County, Tennessee; and county, and town in same 
county, in Virginia. Named for the Polish patriot, Count Casimir Pulaski, friend 
of the Americans in the Revolutionary war. 
Pulteney; town in Steuben County, New York, named for Sir William Pulteney. 
Pung-oteag-ue; stream, and town in Accomac County, Virginia, supposed to be so 
named on account of the extremely sandy character of the county; the name, 
an Indian one, means "place of dust." 
Punta Gorda; town in De Soto County, Florida, so named on account of the point 
near by. A Spanish phrase meaning "large point." 
Punxsutawney; borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. An Indian word 
meaning "sand-fly place." 
Purgatory; river in Colorado, tributary of the Arkansas. A translation of the 
French name " riviere Purgatoire.' n 
Purvis; town in Marion County, Mississippi, named for the former owner of the 
railroad station site. 
Put in Bay; bay in Ottawa County, Ohio, Lake Erie, and village in same county; 
so named because Commodore Perry put in there with his fleet. 
Putnam; city in Windham County, Connecticut; counties in Florida, Georgia, 
Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri; county, pond, and creek in New York; and 
counties in Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia; named for Gen. Israel Putnam, 
distinguished in the Revolutionary W f ar. 
Pyin^/tuning; tributary of the Chenango in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. A Dela- 
ware Indian word meaning "crooked mouthed man's dwelling place." 
Pyramid; canyon of the Colorado River, so named because of the monument-like 
pinnacle of porphyritic rock which crowns the left bank near the entrance. 
Pyramid; harbor in Alaska, so named because of the conical shape of one of its 
islands. 
Pyramid; lake in Nevada, so named on account of the shape of an island in the lake. 
Pyroxene; peak in the same range as the Old Bald in Montana; another name for 
the mineral augite, found in the vicinity. 
