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2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

The schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times between 1905 and 2004 in "The Battle for the Bell," with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia.

Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block

He began working on the steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, earning more money and seeing more parts of the country.

Bracken County, Kentucky

A network of citizens sympathetic to escaping slaves helped them cross the Ohio River to nearby Ripley, Ohio and other points north.

Camp Chase Trail

Camp Chase Trail serves as the Western Columbus segment of the 453 mile Ohio to Erie Trail connecting the Ohio River in Cincinnati to Lake Erie in Cleveland.

Christ of the Ohio

It is located on a Fulton Hill, which overlooks the Ohio River.

Cincinnati Bell/WEBN Riverfest

The CarMax Riverfest is filled with many activities and ends with a gathering on the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio, Covington, Kentucky, and Newport, Kentucky to watch a half-hour fireworks show set to an underscore heard on WEBN.

Clinostomus funduloides

The rosyside dace is native to parts of the southeastern and eastern United States, including the Delaware River drainage, the Savannah River drainage, and the Ohio River basin.

Constitution of Canada

The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.

Continental Army

The following Spring the newly named Legion of the United States left Legionville for the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy in the area south of the Ohio River.

Creek War

In February 1813, a small war party of Red Sticks, led by Little Warrior, were returning from Detroit when they killed two families of settlers along the Ohio River.

Dixmont State Hospital

Subsequent excavation destabilized the hillside and landslides covered Pennsylvania Route 65 and the Pittsburgh Line railroad tracks on the Ohio River side, shutting them both down for weeks.

Edward Coles

They met at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where the party boarded a pair of flatboats and began a water-bound journey: floating on the Monongahela River north to Pittsburgh, then west along the Ohio River toward Illinois.

Enoch Louis Lowe

The most important events of his administration were the adoption of the Maryland Constitution of 1851; the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to the Ohio River, and a reduction of the state tax rate from 25 cents to 15 cents on a $100.

Epes Randolph

From 1886 to 1889 Randolph oversaw the construction of the C&O Railroad Bridge, a double track railway, highway, and foot traffic bridge across the Ohio River, connecting Covington, Kentucky with Cincinnati, Ohio.

Fast Flying Virginian

From Charlottesville, the FFV continued west over the Blue Ridge Mountains and North Mountain to West Virginia, along the New River Gorge, and finally crossing the Ohio River into Ohio at Cincinnati.

Flying Pig Marathon

While the course usually varies from year to year, it generally involves running through downtown, Northern Kentucky, and eastern suburbs along the Ohio River.

Forceythe Willson

In 1846, his father loaded the family and their belongings on a raft and floated down the Allegany and Ohio Rivers to Maysville, Kentucky.

Fort Steuben Bridge

The Fort Steuben Bridge, originally the Weirton-Steubenville Bridge, was a suspension bridge which spanned the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio to Weirton, West Virginia and carried U.S. Route 22 and then Ohio State Route 822 during its existence.

Hansen Site

The 6 hectare site is on a flood terrace of the Ohio River across from the mouth of the Scioto River, just upstream from the Lower Shawneetown site and the Old Fort Earthworks.

Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility

Across the Ohio river in Paducah, Kentucky, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, can enrich the uranium hexafluoride into various levels for nuclear power or nuclear weapon purposes.

John W. Flannagan Dam

Opening the gates is coordinated with other dams on the Big Sandy River and Ohio Rivers as a part of a larger flood control system.

Jon Adkins

Jonathan Scott Adkins (born August 30, 1977) is a Major League Baseball area scout for the Boston Red Sox, covering the Ohio River Valley.

Keowee

During the French and Indian War, Nathaniel Gist urged one hundred Cherokee warriors to attack the Shawnee tribe in the Ohio River region, but only if this fort would be built.

Maidens, Virginia

The new canal was part of a planned link between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean via the James River and the Kanawha River, which would lead to the Ohio River, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Manton, Kentucky

In the springtime these waters would flood, providing a waterway which lead first to the Salt River, then to the Ohio River and thence by flatboat the boatsmen could make their way to New Orleans.

Miami and Erie Canal

Some entrepreneurs even began to ship goods from Ohio down the Ohio River to New Orleans, yet it was difficult to bring new goods back up the river, even with the invention of steamships.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Muskellunge

The muskellunge is known by a wide variety of trivial names including Ohio muskellunge, Great Lakes muskellunge, barred muskellunge, Ohio River pike, Allegheny River pike, jack pike, unspotted muskellunge and the Wisconsin muskellunge.

Ohio State Route 550

It then continued west along the Ohio River, concurrent with SR 7 to Newport where it crossed into St. Marys, West Virginia on the Clarksburg-Columbus Short Route Bridge, later renamed the Hi Carpenter Bridge in 1967, an eyebar-chain suspension bridge bridge.

Paddlefish

The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) is currently known from the Mississippi River watershed in the United States, including slow-flowing waters of the Mississippi River itself, as well as various tributaries including the Missouri River, Ohio River, Yellowstone River, Wisconsin River, Des Moines River, and Arkansas River systems.

Pearl hunting

In a similar manner as in Asia, Native Americans harvested freshwater pearls from lakes and rivers like the Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi, while others successfully retrieved marine pearls from the Caribbean and waters along the coasts of Central and South America.

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

The railroad continued northwest along the left downstream bank of the Ohio to the vicinity of Beaver, Pennsylvania, where it crossed the river on the Beaver Bridge.

Powhatan Point, Ohio

While "Powhatan" likely memorializes the Native-American tribe of the same name, the "Point" in the town's name refers to the confluence between the Captina Creek and the Ohio River.

Ralph Brazelton Peck

He continued to work until 2005 and was highly influential as a consulting engineer, with some 1,045 consulting projects in foundations, ore storage facilities, tunnel projects, dams, and dikes, including the Cannelton and Uniontown lock and dam construction failures on the Ohio River, the dams in the James Bay project, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, the Dead Sea dikes and the Rion-Antirion Bridge in Greece.

Richard Delafield

While superintendent of repair work on the Cumberland Road east of the Ohio River, he designed and built Dunlap's Creek Bridge in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, the first cast-iron tubular-arch bridge in the United States.

Seven Ranges Terminus

Seven Ranges Terminus is a stone surveying marker near Magnolia, Ohio that marks the completion of the first step in opening the lands northwest of the Ohio River to sale and settlement by Americans.

Shelby Place Historic District

Shelby Place Historic District is a registered historic district in New Albany, Indiana, one mile north of the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky.

Silver redhorse

The silver redhorse, Moxostoma anisurum, is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Canada from Quebec to Alberta and in the United States in the Mississippi River, St. Lawrence River, Ohio River, and the Great Lakes basins.

Southwestern Indiana

1 After Ohio, Patoka, Wabash, and White Rivers or
six including the Little Wabash, and Embarras Rivers
all of which join along the boundaries Knox, Gibson
or Posey Counties.

Steven M. Newman

He and his wife, Darci, reside on nearly 25 acres along the Ohio River on a heavily forested hillside known as “Worldwalker Hill.”

The Fourth River

The Fourth River takes its name from a subterranean river beneath Pittsburgh, a city famously sited at the confluence of three rivers: Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio.

Towboat

In the United States above St. Louis on the Upper Mississippi River and on other rivers such as the Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas, Tennessee and Cumberland, boats can handle only up to 15 barges due the size of lock chambers.

Western Siouan languages

Some continued down the Ohio River to the Mississippi and up to the Missouri, and others across Ohio to what is now Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, home of the Dakota.

Wheeling Island Historic District

Notable non-residential contributing properties include the Exposition Building (1924), Thompson United Methodist Church (1913-1915), Madison School (1916), firehouse (1930-1931), the Bridgeport Bridge (1893), the Aetnaville Bridge (1891), "The Marina," Wheeling Island Baseball Park, and "Belle Island Park." It includes the separately listed Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Harry C. and Jessie F. Franzheim House, and John McLure House.

WSAZ-TV

Radio engineer Glenn Chase applied to the Secretary of Commerce for a license to operate a small radio station in Pomeroy, Ohio (it moved down and across the Ohio River to Huntington in 1927).


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