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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 Weirton–Steubenville, WV–OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, also known as the Upper Ohio Valley, is a metropolitan statistical area consisting of two counties in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and one in Ohio, anchored by the cities of Weirton and Steubenville.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal for over three centuries. About a million Portuguese settlers arrived during this period [8] and brought their culture to the colony. The Indigenous inhabitants of Brazil had much contact with the colonists.
Richland Furnace State Forest – 2,343 acres (9 km 2) Scioto Trail State Forest – 9,371 acres (38 km 2) Shade River State Forest – 2,601 acres (11 km 2); Meigs County; Shawnee State Forest – 59,603 acres (241 km 2); Scioto and Adams Counties; Sunfish Creek State Forest – 637 acres (2.6 km 2) Tar Hollow State Forest – 16,126 acres (65 ...
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
A major source of outdoor recreation in the region, official attendance figures recorded 18.5 million recreational visitors to the system's 18 reservations and the zoo in 2018, making the attraction one of the most visited in the state of Ohio. [2] The Metroparks golf courses, amenities that do exact a fee, attract over 400,000 golfers annually.
The Olentangy River rises in Morrow County approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) southeast of Galion, near Blooming Grove, flowing through Galion and northwest towards Bucyrus, where it then turns south and flows through Eastern Marion County, Ohio (where it is still locally known as the Whetstone River) before flowing south into Delaware County.
Hocking Hills State Park is a state park in the Hocking Hills region of Hocking County, Ohio, United States. In some areas the park adjoins the Hocking State Forest . Within the park are over 25 miles (40 km) of hiking trails, rock formations, waterfalls, and recess caves.