Local Native American Place Names
in New York and Pennsylvania

Apalachin
Ashinsink
Awega - now Owego
Cattaraugus
Canisteo
Cayuga - named for the tribe
Cayuta
Chemung - or Shumounk, Shamunk - Delaware (Algonquin) for "big horn" or "horn in the water"
Chequaga - as in Chequaga Falls
Cowanesque meaning "overrun with briars"
Diohoga - now Tioga - meaning "at the forks," describing a meeting place
Kanaweola or Canaweola- meaning "head on a pole"
Keuka - Iroquois work meaning "canoe"
Montour
Seneca - named for the tribe
Sheshequin
Shenango - now Chenango - meaning "large bull-thistle."
Susquehanna - Algonquin word meaning "muddy current"
Painted Post
Presho
Tioga - "at the meeting of the waters"
Towanda meaning "burial ground"
Wesauking - "place of good canoeing" or "let's go canoeing"
Welawanung - now Wilawana
Wyalusing
Wysox - "grape vines"