Lackawanna
a city of New York, in Erie co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Lehigh Valley, and other railroads.
Its industries include the manufacture of steel, bridge works, blast furnaces, and coking plants. It has St. John's Protectory, an orphan asylum, and a hospital. Pop. (1910) 14,549; (1920) 17,- 918. for a tract of country granted by royal LACONIA (-kō'ni-ä), a former name patent to Ferdinand Gorges and John Mason. It was bounded by the Merrimac and Kennebec rivers, the ocean, and the so-called River of Canada. The present State of New Hampshire formed a considerable portion of Laconia. The colony was of short duration.