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They determined that building a system of locks and dams to form pools was the best solution to the problem. Following the opening of the lock and dam at Davis Island in 1885, the venture proved to be worthy. In 1910, the Rivers and Harbors Act was authorized by Congress. The Act allowed the production of a system of locks and dams along the Ohio.
The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President (Ohio University Press, 2016) Lamis, Alexander, and Brian Usher. Ohio Politics (2007) 544pp. Maizlish, Stephen E. The Triumph of Sectionalism: The Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844–1856 (1983) Miller, Richard F. States at War, Volume 5: A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War (2015).
They were forced to relocate to the west to escape pressure from European-American settlers. The region surrounding the Great Miami River is known as the Miami Valley . This term is used in the upper portions of the valley as a moniker for the economic-cultural region centered primarily on the Greater Dayton area.
The 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix with several tribes opened Kentucky to colonial settlement and established the Ohio River as a southern boundary for American Indian territory. [53] In 1774 the Quebec Act restored the land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River to Quebec, in effect making the Ohio the southern boundary of Canada.
Dumbarton Blvd. Dam—This 12-to-14-foot (3.7 to 4.3 m) high masonry dam [76] is located about 400 feet (120 m) north of the intersection of Dumbarton Blvd. and Douglas Blvd. Built some time in the 1800s, it once impounded a substantial reservoir. It is silted up, and now only a small pond exists.
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The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany , and the newly settled area north of the canal as " Over the Rhine ".
Hoover Dam, in Blendon Township, near Westerville, Ohio, dams Big Walnut Creek to form the Hoover Memorial Reservoir. This reservoir is a major water source for the city of Columbus, Ohio. It holds 20.8 billion US gallons (79,000,000 m 3) of water and has a surface area of 3,272 acres (13.24 km 2), or about five square miles. Construction began ...