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The St. Marys River (named Saint Marys River by the United States Geological Survey, [1]) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) [2] river in the southeastern United States. The river was known to the Timucua [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as Thlathlothlaguphka , [ 5 ] or Phlaphlagaphgaw , [ 6 ] meaning "rotten fish". [ 7 ]
Waterkeeper Alliance is a worldwide network of environmental organizations founded in 1999 that work to protect bodies of water around the United States and the world. [1] By December 2019, the group said it had grown to 350 members in 46 countries, with half the membership outside the U.S.; the alliance had added 200 groups in the last five years.
Most of the city of St. Marys is located in northern Saint Marys Township, and the eastern end of Grand Lake St. Marys and its respective state park are located in the western part of the township. Saint Marys Township is crossed by the St. Marys River, a tributary of the Maumee River. [2]
The St. Marys River (left) and St. Joseph River (right) converge to form the Maumee River (foreground) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. There are several small islands in the section of the Maumee River in northwest Ohio. The names of the islands are: [16] Indian Island – near Farnsworth Park west of Toledo
Proposals to use 155,000,000 US gallons (590,000,000 L) a day from the St. Johns, and another 100,000,000 US gallons (380,000,000 L) from the Ocklawaha River, for fresh water are controversial, prompting a private organization named St. Johns Riverkeeper to nominate it to the list of the Ten Most Endangered Rivers by an environmental watchdog ...
The St. Marys River (sometimes spelled St. Mary's River) is a 22.3-mile-long (35.9 km) [1] river in southern Maryland in the United States.It rises in southern St. Mary's County, and flows to the southeast through Great Mills, widening into a tidal estuary near St. Mary's City, approximately 2 miles (3 km) wide at its mouth on the north bank of the Potomac River, near the Chesapeake Bay to the ...
St. Marys is a city in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population is 12,738 as of the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Originally a small town inhabited by mostly Bavarian Roman Catholics, it was founded December 8, 1842.
Neebish Island was the birthplace and childhood home of Pat Norton (1931-2001), a local painter whose work depicts the St. Marys River, lake freighters, churches, and other island scenes. Born as Pat Cook, one of twelve children of the United States lighthouse keeper and his wife, she grew up with familiar views of lake freighters and related ...