USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ohio Valley has yielded and trans-ported many resources such as coal, timber, iron ore, salt, clay, and oil. It has seen wine vineyards and steel mills, apple orchards and power plants, silk worm farms and chemical plants. Its deep, busy and still beautiful waters of today are the mark of this effort.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fertile soil, plentiful water, navigable rivers and access to regions west and south, such as St. Louis and New Orleans, made our region quite sought after by European powers colonizing North America.

Detailed explanation-3: -NATURAL RESOURCES Besides Ohio’s fertile soil, the state is also known for coal, natural gas, and rock salt called halite. Mined from beneath Lake Erie, the state produces about five million tons of the salt a year.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was the home of the British colonial outpost, Fort Cumberland. Nearby lies the Cumberland Narrows (not to be confused with the Cumberland Gap in southeastern Kentucky), through which American Indian, and early Anglo-European trails passed, including the British colonial war route, Braddock’s Road.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Ohio River is the source of drinking water for more than five million people. More than 25 million people, almost 10% of the US population, live in the Ohio River Basin. There are 20 dams on the Ohio River, managed by the Army Corps of Engineers.