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Lackawanna River Heritage Trail
__NOTOC__ 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. Places 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 ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenni Lenape
The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory included present-day northeastern Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed, New York City, western Long Island, and the lower Hudson Valley. Today, Lenape people belong to the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma; the Stockbridge–Munsee Community in Wisconsin; and the Munsee-Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario. The Lenape have a matrilineal clan system and historically were matrilocal. During the last decades of the 18th century, most Lenape were removed from their homeland by expanding European colonies. The divisions and troubles of the American Revolutionary War and United States' independence pushed them farther we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
