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23 mar 2023 · T he Ohio Valley is a region that spans across several states in the Midwest and East Coast of the United States, including Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Its...
The recorded history of Ohio began in the late 17th century when French explorers from Canada reached the Ohio River, from which the "Ohio Country" took its name, a river the Iroquois called O-y-o, "great river".
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 .
Several accounts exist of the discovery and traversal of the Ohio River by Europeans in the latter half of the 17th century: Virginian colonist Abraham Wood's trans-Appalachian expeditions between 1654 and 1664; [22] Frenchman Robert de La Salle's putative Ohio expedition of 1669; [23] and two expeditions of Virginians sponsored by Colonel Wood ...
7 lut 2024 · Who discovered the Ohio River Valley? The French explorer Robert de La Salle was among the first Europeans to see the Ohio River. He named the river La Belle Rivière or The Beautiful River.
26 maj 2020 · While La Salle has long been credited as the first European to see the Ohio River, with some claiming his expedition traveled as far as modern day Louisville, KY, historians have found it difficult to find historical records confirming these claims.
9 lis 2024 · Johann Heckewelder, a German Moravian missionary who visited the area in 1792, noted their presence on both sides of the Ohio River in his travel report published in Germany in 1797. Germans...
