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Wapsipincon; river in Iowa, so named because oi the rool which is found in great 
abundance upon its banks. An Indian word meaning "white potatoes." 
Wapwallopen; stream and village in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A Delaware 
Indian name said by some to mean "place where the messengers were mur- 
dered;" by others, "where white hemp grows." 
Waquapaug; stream in Rhode Island. An Indian word meaning "at the end of 
the pond." 
Ward; town in Boulder County, Colorado, named for the Ward lode, discovered in 
1860. 
Ward; village in Boone County, Indiana, named for Thomas Ward, Congressman 
from that State. 
Ward; peak in Montana, named for Artemus Ward. 
Ward; point on Staten Island, New York, named for the man who formerly owned 
that part of the island. 
Ward; county in North Dakota, named for Hon. Mark Ward, of South Dakota. 
Ward; county in Texas, named for Thomas W. Ward, the commissioner of the gen- 
eral land office under the first State governor of Texas. 
Wards; island in New York, named for Jasper and Bartholomew Ward, former 
proprietors. 
Wards; town in Saluda County, South Carolina, named for the Ward family, promi- 
nent residents of the State. 
Wardsboro; town in Windham County, Vermont, named for William Ward, of 
Newfane, the principal proprietor. 
Ware; county in Georgia named for Nicholas Ware, an early Senator from Georgia. 
Ware; town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, so named on account of the weirs, 
or weirers, formerly constructed in the river to catch salmon. 
Wareham; town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, named from the town in 
England. 
Waresboro; town in Ware County, Georgia, named for Nicholas Ware, an early 
Senator from that State. 
Warm Spring's; town in Alameda County California, named from the hot springs. 
Warner; town in Merrimack County, New 7 Hampshire, named for Col. Jonathan 
Warner, of Portsmouth. 
Warnerville; village in Schoharie County, New York, named for Capt. George 
Warner, the first settler. 
Warramaug-; pond in Litchfield County, Connecticut. An Indian word meaning 
"good fishing place." 
Warren; creek in Humboldt County, California, named for a settler. 
Warren; town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, named for Samuel Warren of 
Revolutionary fame. 
Warren; counties in Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, and Kentucky; town in Knox County, 
Maine; fortification in Boston Harbor, and town in Worcester County, Massa- 
chusetts; counties in Mississippi, Missouri, and New Jersey; county and town in 
Herkimer County, New r York; counties in North Carolina and Ohio; county, 
and borough in same county, in Pennsylvania; and comities in Tennessee and 
A r irginia; named for Joseph Warren, who fell in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
Warren; township and village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, named for the first 
white child born in the settlement, 
Warren; county in Indiana, named for Gen. Francis Warren. 
Warren; city in Trumbull County, Ohio, named for Gen. Moses Warren, of Lyme, 
Connecticut. 
Warren; towns in Grafton County, New Hampshire, ami Bristol Comity, Rhode 
Island, named for Admiral Sir Peter Warren, of the royal navy. 
