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The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at 1,093 feet (333 m) over 84 miles (135 km) from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to 571 feet (174 m) [4] at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively ...
Tinker's Creek is the largest tributary of the Cuyahoga River, the river which flows through Cleveland and into Lake Erie. Because of its glacial history, the course of the Cuyahoga River is unusual: it rises in Geauga County, Ohio, flows southward into the city of Akron, Ohio, and then abruptly turns northward and flows into Lake Erie.
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo', meaning "good river", "great river" or "large creek". [1]
Cuyahoga Valley National Park may not be a household name, but it’s one of America’s 10 most popular national parks.The Ohio park saw nearly 3 million visitors last year, which was more than ...
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park of the United States in Ohio that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio. The 32,783-acre (51.2 sq mi; 132.7 km 2 ) park [ 1 ] is administered by the National Park Service , but within its boundaries are areas ...
A wooden elevated path leading down to Brandywine Falls. Brandywine Falls, 86 feet (26.2 m) high, at , Elevation: 814 feet (248.1 m) [4] within Cuyahoga Valley National Park, is accessed by a parking lot located on Stanford Road, about 100 feet (30.5 m) from Brandywine Road, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) South of Ohio State Route 82, and 1 mile (1.6 km) North-West of Olde Eight in Sagamore Hills,
Map of a portion of the canal route in the Cuyahoga Valley. The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio.It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth.
Cuyahoga Falls was formed in 1812 [6] near the junction of what was then Northampton, Stow, Tallmadge, and Portage townships. The focus was the series of Cuyahoga River waterfalls that provided power for manufacturing. In 1812, Kelsey and Wilcox built a dam on the Cuyahoga River at a place where a railroad bridge crossed it in 1876.