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About Ohio River

The Ohio River is framed by the juncture of the Allegheny and Monongahela streams at current Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It closes around 900 miles downstream at Cairo, Illinois, where it streams into the Mississippi River. It got its English name from the Iroquois word, "O-Y-O," signifying "the considerable waterway". One of the primary Europeans to see the Ohio River was Frenchman Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle in 1669. He named the waterway "la dame riviere" or "the lovely stream."

Amid the 1700s, the Ohio River filled in as the southern outskirt of what later came to be known as the Northwest Territory. In a few bargains, the waterway additionally filled in as a separating line between British settlements in Kentucky and American Indian people group in the Ohio Country. The British by and large stayed south of the waterway, while the American Indians kept on living and chase north of it until the finish of the American Revolution. As pilgrims pushed west over the Appalachian Mountains, huge numbers of these individuals utilized the Ohio River to transport their families and possessions westbound. A few of the main lasting settlements by individuals from the recently framed United States were established on the waterway's banks. These spots incorporated the towns of Marietta, Steubenville and Cincinnati.

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