Ohio River Valley
Pittsburgh-to-Cairo basin
The Ohio River Valley is the drainage basin of the Ohio River in the eastern United States, stretching from western Pennsylvania through Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky to the Mississippi River.
Historically significant as a contested frontier between British and French colonial powers, and later as a major route for westward American expansion.
The Ohio River Valley was the breadbasket of the young republic.
- CincinnatiOhio's third-largest city
- French and Indian War1750s colonial North American conflict
- Northwest TerritoryFormer British North American region
- LouisvilleMajor Kentucky river city
- TecumsehShawnee military leader
Evansville · fur trading post · coal mining · westward expansion · Lewis and Clark Expedition · Great Migration · wetlands · frontier · Great Migration · folk music · pioneer trails · flood plain · steel production · corn whiskey · tribe · Indian mounds · burial grounds · salt lick
- Northwest TerritoryNorthwest Territory, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- canalsGrand Canal, Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Erie Canal, canal boat
Ohio River ValleyRocky Mountains
Western North American cordillera
Great Basin · Great Plains · Mojave Desert · Colorado Plateau · Cascade Range
Ohio River ValleyPacific Northwest
Coastal American region, northward
Alaska · Hawaiian Islands · New England · Great Plains · Rocky Mountain region
Ohio River ValleyRocky Mountains
Western North American cordillera
Great Plains · Colorado Plateau · Sierra Nevada · Cascade Range · high desert