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The Lake Erie and Mad River Railroad, initially considered a company for a close relationship with the Little Miami, was absorbed into the competing New York Central system. The Little Miami's most serious competitor, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1895–1917), became part of the competitive Baltimore and Ohio system.
Watersheds of the Great Miami River (beige) and Little Miami River (yellow) The Little Miami River is a tributary of the Ohio River. It is part of a watershed that drains a 1,757 square miles (4,550 km 2) area in 11 southwestern Ohio counties: Clark, Montgomery, Madison, Greene, Warren, Butler, Clinton, Clermont, Brown, Hamilton, and Highland. [5]
The river is named for the Miami, an Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived in the region during the early days of European settlement. [4] 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.
Just before crossing the river, the route passes under an old railroad bridge that now hosts the Little Miami Scenic Trail. Both US 50 and SR 28 cross over the Little Miami River and enters the City of Milford. The route curves southeast, before turning northeast, passing through the downtown area of Milford.
Dayton and Western Railroad: PRR: 1846 1943 Little Miami Railroad: Dayton, Xenia and Belpre Railroad: PRR: 1851 1865 Columbus and Xenia Railroad, Little Miami Railroad: Delphos and Kokomo Railroad: NKP: 1877 1879 Toledo, Delphos and Burlington Railroad: Detroit, Butler and St. Louis Railroad: WAB: 1881 1881 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway
Most of the trail runs along the banks of the Little Miami River, in a dedicated, car-free corridor known as Little Miami State Park. This unusually linear state park passes through four counties, with a right-of-way running about 50 miles (80 km) long and averaging 66 feet (20 m) in width [7] for a total of about 400 acres (160 ha). Elsewhere ...
The Little Miami River passing through Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve on December 18, 2021. Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve, in Greene County, Ohio, is located three miles east of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and immediately southwest of Clifton, Ohio. [1] [2] The preserve constitutes 268 acres of gorges along two miles of the Little Miami ...
The town of Lebanon, Ohio, laid out in 1802, was bypassed by the Miami and Erie Canal in 1830; the branch Warren County Canal to Lebanon was wrecked by flooding in 1848. The Little Miami Railroad (1846, later a Pennsylvania line) and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (1851, later a B&O line) followed the valleys of the Little and Great Miami rivers (the M&E Canal had used the latter ...