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Original - George Washington's map of the Ohio River and surrounding region with notes on French intentions, 1753 or 1754. Reason A historic map not just because of who made it, but because it documents the beginning of the French and Indian War. Washington worked as a surveyor in his youth, so he was capable of producing this himself and the ...
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States. It is the fourth-longest Interstate in the country at 2,460.34 miles (3,959.53 km), following I-90, I-80, and I-40. It was part of the originally planned Interstate Highway network that was laid out in 1956, and its last ...
This is a list of locks and dams of the Ohio River, which begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at The Point in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ends at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, in Cairo, Illinois. A map and diagram of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operated locks and dams on the Ohio River.
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
The Interstate 10 exit list has been divided by state: Interstate 10 in California#Exit list; Interstate 10 in Arizona#Exit list; Interstate 10 in New Mexico#Exit list; Interstate 10 in Texas#Exit list; Interstate 10 in Louisiana#Exit list; Interstate 10 in Mississippi#Exit list; Interstate 10 in Alabama#Exit list; Interstate 10 in Florida#Exit ...
Henderson Bridge (Ohio River) CSX Transportation: Union Township and Henderson: 1932 Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges: US 41: Evansville and Henderson (crosses the river entirely within the state of Kentucky at this point) 1932, 1965
The fountain in Point State Park, which sprays water up to 150 feet (46 m) in the air at the head of the Ohio River. The location of the fountain at the tip of the Point previously served as a connector for two old bridges, the Manchester Bridge (over the Allegheny River) and Point Bridge (over the Monongahela). Both were removed in 1970 to ...
Ohio Brush Creek is a 59.9-mile-long (96.4 km) [4] tributary of the Ohio River in southern Ohio in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River , draining an area of 435 square miles (1,130 km 2 ). [ 5 ]