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Muskingum River

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The Muskingum River (Shawnee: Wakatamothiipi) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 111 miles (179 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. [1]

51 relations: Beverly, Ohio, Big Bottom massacre, Canada, Christopher Gist, Conesville, Ohio, Confluence, Coshocton, Ohio, Dam, DeLorme, Devola, Ohio, Drainage basin, Dresden, Ohio, Exploration, Folk etymology, Gaysport, Ohio, Geographic Names Information System, Lake Erie, Licking River (Ohio), List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks, List of rivers of Ohio, Lock (water navigation), Lowell, Ohio, Malta, Ohio, Marietta, Ohio, Mason–Dixon line, McConnelsville, Ohio, Meander, Mississippi River, Moxahala Creek, Muskingum River Power Plant, Northwest Territory, Ohio, Ohio River, Philo, Ohio, Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville, Shawnee language, Slavery in the United States, South Zanesville, Ohio, Southern United States, Stockport, Ohio, Tuscarawas River, Unami language, Underground Railroad, United States, Wakatomika Creek, Walhonding River, Wills Creek (Ohio), Wyandot people, Y-Bridge (Zanesville, Ohio), Zane's Trace, ..., Zanesville, Ohio. Expand index (1 more) »

Beverly, Ohio

Beverly is a village in Washington County, Ohio, United States.

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Big Bottom massacre

The Big Bottom massacre occurred on January 2, 1791, near present-day Stockport now in Morgan County, Ohio, United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Christopher Gist

Christopher Gist (1706–1759) was a colonial British explorer, surveyor and frontiersman.

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Conesville, Ohio

Conesville is a village in Coshocton County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.

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Coshocton, Ohio

Coshocton is a city in and the county seat of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States approximately 63 mi (102 km) ENE of Columbus.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.

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DeLorme

DeLorme is a producer of personal satellite tracking, messaging, and navigation technology.

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Devola, Ohio

Devola is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dresden, Ohio

Dresden is a village in Jefferson and Cass townships in Muskingum County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River at the mouth of Wakatomika Creek.

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Exploration

Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology or reanalysis – sometimes called pseudo-etymology, popular etymology, or analogical reformation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one.

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Gaysport, Ohio

Gaysport is an unincorporated community in Muskingum County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.

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Licking River (Ohio)

The Licking River is a tributary of the Muskingum River, about 40 mi (65 km) long, in central Ohio in the United States.

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List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks

The following is a list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers since it began the program in 1964.

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List of rivers of Ohio

This is a list of rivers in the state of Ohio in the United States of America.

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Lock (water navigation)

A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.

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Lowell, Ohio

Lowell is a village in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River.

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Malta, Ohio

Malta is a village in Morgan County, Ohio, United States.

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Marietta, Ohio

Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Ohio, United States.

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Mason–Dixon line

The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America.

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McConnelsville, Ohio

McConnelsville is a village in Morgan County, Ohio, United States.

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Meander

A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Moxahala Creek

Moxahala Creek is a tributary of the Muskingum River, 29.2 miles (47.0 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States.

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Muskingum River Power Plant

Muskingum River Power Plant was a 1.5-gigawatt (1,529 MW) coal power plant, owned and operated by American Electric Power (AEP).

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Northwest Territory

The Northwest Territory in the United States was formed after the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), and was known formally as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Philo, Ohio

Philo is a village in Muskingum County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River.

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Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville

Pierre-Joseph Céloron de Blainville (29 December 1693, Montreal—14 April 1759, Montreal) — also known as Celeron de Bienville (or Céleron, or Céloron, etc.) — was a French Canadian Officer of Marine.

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Shawnee language

The Shawnee language is a Central Algonquian language spoken in parts of central and northeastern Oklahoma by the Shawnee people.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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South Zanesville, Ohio

South Zanesville is a village in Muskingum County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River at the mouth of Moxahala Creek.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Stockport, Ohio

Stockport is a village in Morgan County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River.

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Tuscarawas River

The Tuscarawas River is a principal tributary of the Muskingum River, 129.9 miles (209 km) long, in northeastern Ohio in the United States.

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Unami language

Unami is an Algonquian language spoken by Lenape people in the late 17th-century and the early 18th-century, in what then was (or later became) the southern two-thirds of New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and the northern two-thirds of Delaware, but later in Ontario and Oklahoma.

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Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Wakatomika Creek

Wakatomika Creek is a tributary of the Muskingum River, 42.6 mi (68.6 km) long, in central Ohio in the United States.

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Walhonding River

The Walhonding River is a principal tributary of the Muskingum River, 23.5 miles (37.8 km) long,Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

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Wills Creek (Ohio)

Wills Creek is a tributary of the Muskingum River, 92.2 mi (148.4 km) long, in eastern Ohio in the United States.

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Wyandot people

The Wyandot people or Wendat, also called the Huron Nation and Huron people, in most historic references are believed to have been the most populous confederacy of Iroquoian cultured indigenous peoples of North America.

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Y-Bridge (Zanesville, Ohio)

The Zanesville Y-Bridge is a historic Y-shaped three-way bridge that spans the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum Rivers in downtown Zanesville, Ohio.

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Zane's Trace

Zane's Trace is a frontier road constructed under the direction of Col.

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Zanesville, Ohio

Zanesville is a city in and the county seat of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskingum_River

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