Map generated by hometownlocator.com Gowango once stood on the east bank of the Allegheny River.

About half-way between the places now known as Sugar Bay and Willow Bay there was once a cable across the Allegheny River at a place called Gowango.

It was a small settlement that built up around the railroad shipping point on the eastern bank of the river.

The name is possibly of Seneca origin and translates to “boat up there” or “inside of a boat,” according to Place Names in Warren County, Pennsylvania, by Ernest C. Miller

The name — possibly with an alternate spelling of “Gawango” — was affixed to the place not by the Seneca, but by the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad.

There was a cable ferry that operated there for a while to haul lumber from Cornplanter Run across the river to be shipped via rail.

Gowango was just to the south of, and across the river from, the Cornplanter Grant – made to Chief Cornplanter in 1791.

Both places disappeared at the same time.

“Today, Gowango is beneath the waters of Kinzua Dam,” according to Miller.