VHSホームビデオ: Ohio River

The Ohio River stretches almost a thousand miles from...

...western Pennsylvania to the Mississippi river in Illinois.

Its name is derived from the native Seneca people...

...who called it Oh-hee-yo, meaning Good River.

The river was important from Native times, through to the European conquest...

...and was nicknamed the "River Jordan" by slaves as, by crossing it...

...they could escape to the North, and freedom.

The Ohio is one of America's most polluted rivers...

...mainly from nitrates used in agricultural fertiliser.

The river is widest just north of Louisville, Kentucky.

Near Louisville, the river turns to falls

...on which the McAlpine Locks were built in 1830, and a dam in 1927.

Other major cities on the river include Pittsburgh, Evansville, and Cincinnati...

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