Ohio River Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text===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> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page