Lackawanna

Lackawanna (from a Lenni Lenape word meaning "stream that forks") is the name of various places and later businesses in the mid-Atlantic United States, generally tracing their name in some manner from the Lackawanna River in Pennsylvania.

Inhabited places

 * Lackawanna, New York, a city in Erie County, New York, just south of Buffalo
 * Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, a county in northeast Pennsylvania, of which the county seat is Scranton

Natural formations

 * Lackawanna River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania
 * Lake Lackawanna, Sussex County, NJ, a man-made lake (circa 1911) and golf course

Other places

 * Lackawanna Coal Mine, a former mine redeveloped as a museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania
 * Lackawanna College, a college in Scranton, Pennsylvania
 * Lackawanna State Park, in northeastern Pennsylvania
 * Lackawanna State Forest, former name of Pinchot State Forest

Railroads

 * Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, an extant shortline railroad operating in Northeastern Pennsylvania
 * Erie Lackawanna Railroad (1960–1968)
 * Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (1853–1960), also known as the Lackawanna Railroad
 * Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad (1852–1873), 19th century railroad that ran between Scranton and Northumberland
 * Lackawanna and Western Railroad (1853–1960)
 * Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (1903–1976), third rail electric interurban streetcar line from 1903 to 1976

Arts

 * The Lackawanna Valley, a circa 1855 painting by George Inness
 * Lackawanna Blues, a 2001 Ruben Santiago-Hudson play that was adapted as a 2005 television movie

Other uses

 * USS Lackawanna, two ships in the U.S. navy
 * Lackawanna (Front Royal, Virginia), a historic home in Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia
 * Lackawanna Steel Company, a former steel company that started in Scranton then moved to western New York