Ohio River

===European discovery===
Several accounts exist of the discovery and traversal of the Ohio River by Europeans in the latter half of the 17th century: Virginian colonist [[Abraham Wood]]'s trans-Appalachian expeditions between 1654 and 1664;<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngz-jTApvNoC&q=abraham+wood+ohio+river&pg=PA28|title=A History of Appalachia |last=Drake|first=Richard B.|date=August 1, 2003 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-9060-0 |language=en|access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-date= July 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714233113/https://books.google.com/books?id=ngz-jTApvNoC&q=abraham+wood+ohio+river&pg=PA28|url-status= live}}</ref> Frenchman [[Robert de La Salle]]'s putative Ohio expedition of 1669;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Rene_R._de_La_Salle |title= Rene R. de La Salle |website=Ohio History Central |access-date=April 27, 2019 |archive-date=April 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427204508/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Rene_R._de_La_Salle |url-status=live}}</ref> and two expeditions of Virginians sponsored by Colonel Wood: the [[Batts and Fallam expedition]] of 1671,<ref name="ricebrown" /> and the Needham and Arthur expedition of 1673-74.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1620 |title=Needham and Arthur Expedition|website=The West Virginia Encyclopedia|access-date=April 27, 2019|archive-date=April 27, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190427204510/https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1620 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Who gets credit for discovering the ''Ohio'' River may depend on where one places the headwaters: in colonial times, the Allegheny extended to the mouth of the Kanawha; today, the headwaters of the Ohio are placed at the mouth of the Monongehela.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735057893269/viewer#page/22/mode/2up |title=The Planting of civilization in western Pennsylvania |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=1967 |website=University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions |page=47 |access-date= April 27, 2019 |archive-date=April 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427203801/https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057893269/viewer#page/22/mode/2up |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZlWSdSV2cQQC&pg=PA16 |title=Ohio River |last=McNeese |first=Tim |year=2004 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=9781438125206 |pages=16 |access-date=April 27, 2019 |archive-date=July 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714233113/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZlWSdSV2cQQC&pg=PA16 |url-status=live}}</ref>