Lackawanna

Lackawanna (from a Lenni Lenape word meaning "stream that forks") relates to several places in the United States:

  • Lackawanna, New York, a city in Erie County, New York
  • Lackawanna Coal Mine, a former mine turned museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • Lackawanna College, a college in Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, a county in northeast Pennsylvania, of which the county seat is Scranton
  • Lackawanna River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania
  • Lackawanna State Forest, in northeastern Pennsylvania
  • Lackawanna State Park, in northeastern Pennsylvania
  • Lackawanna Steel Company, a former steel company that started in Scranton then moved to western New York
  • Lake Lackawanna, Byram Twp., Sussex County, NJ, a man made lake (circa 1911) and golf course owned by the Lake Lackawanna Investment Company

An extant railroad company in the United States:

  • Delaware–Lackawanna Railroad

Several former railroad companies in the United States:

  • Erie Lackawanna Railroad
  • Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, also known as the Lackawanna Railroad
  • Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad
  • Lackawanna and Western Railroad
  • Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad

The arts:

  • The Lackawanna Valley, a circa 1855 painting by George Inness
  • Lackawanna Blues, a 2001 Ruben Santiago-Hudson play that became a 2005 television movie