__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 Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

Places

Inhabited places

Lackawanna, New York Lackawanna is a Administrative divisions of New York#City, city in Erie County, New York, Erie County, New York (state), New York, United States, just south of the city of Buffalo, New York, Buffalo in western New York (state), New York State. T ...

, 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 Lake Lackawanna was created by the removal of fill material for the creation of Lubber Run Fill on the Lackawanna Cut-Off in northwest New Jersey, United States. The lake is fed by Lubbers Run Lubbers Run is a creek running through Byram Town ...

, Sussex County, NJ, a man-made lake (circa 1911) and golf course

Other places

Lackawanna Coal Mine The Lackawanna Coal Mine is a museum and retired coal mine located in McDade Park in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Scranton, Pennsylvania. History The Lackawanna Coal Mine was opened by Continental Coal Company in 1903. Lackawanna County, including ...

, 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 Pinchot State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #11. The main offices are located in Lackawanna State Park in North Abington Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Th ...

, 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 The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad) was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey (and by ferry with New York City), a distance of . Incorporated in ...

(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 __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 Pennsylvani ...

(1853–1960) *

Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad, more commonly known as the Laurel Line, was a Pennsylvania third rail electric interurban streetcar line which operated commuter train service from 1903 to 1952, and freight service until 1976. Its main li ...

(1903–1976), third rail electric interurban streetcar line from 1903 to 1976

Arts

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The Lackawanna Valley ''The Lackawanna Valley'' is a c. 1855 painting by the American artist George Inness. Painted in oil on canvas, it is one of Inness' most well-known works.Cikovsky, Quick, 74 It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...

'', a circa 1855 painting by George Inness *''

Lackawanna Blues ''Lackawanna Blues'' is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growi ...

'', a 2001 Ruben Santiago-Hudson play that was adapted as a 2005 television movie

Other uses

*, 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