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The region extends from southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois through Tennessee and central Kentucky and into northern Alabama. Nearly 65% of Kentucky's territory is within the Interior Low Plateaus region, which encompasses an area from the western Appalachian Plateaus to the Tennessee River .
1840s map of Mound City. From about 200 BC to AD 500, the Ohio River Valley was a central area of the prehistoric Hopewell culture. The term Hopewell (taken from the land owner who owned the land where one of the mound complexes was located) culture is applied to a broad network of beliefs and practices among different Native American peoples who inhabited a large portion of eastern North America.
The Ohio River Scenic Byway follows the Ohio River through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio ending at Steubenville, Ohio, on the river. Before there were cities, there were colonial forts. These forts played a dominant role in the French and Indian War , Northwest Indian War and pioneering settlement of Ohio Country .
This caused a catastrophic draining of the lake, which in turn scoured a 1 to 2 mi (1.6 to 3.2 km) wide valley known as the Wabash-Erie Channel or "sluiceway". The Little (Wabash) River flows through this channel. U.S. 24 traverses it between Fort Wayne and Huntington. The valley is the largest topographical feature in Allen County, Indiana. [5]
In pre-Columbian times, Native Americans mined the blueish-gray chert and flint in the Ohio Valley for arrowheads, spearheads, and other weapons and tools. The first European and American Explorers came to the region traveling along the Ohio River. Squire Boone, the younger brother of Daniel Boone, is considered the first modern explorer of the ...
The ‘deep stage’ is used to describe the portion of the Teays Valley and other proglacial valleys carved into bedrock in the Great Lakes region. This includes Ohio Valley, near Madison, Indiana, before the Pleistocene; [15] the Wabash Valley; and the Mississippi Valley. The floor of the Teays Valley in West Virginia is 200 feet (61 m) above ...
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The northern boundary of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois was originally defined to be a latitudinal line drawn through the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan. Since such a line did not provide Indiana with usable frontage on the lake, its northern border was shifted ten miles (16 km) north when it was granted statehood in 1816. [2]