"Ohio river" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... estimates on the subject of roads and canals", have been actively engaged in that service from the close of the last session of Congress. They have completed the surveys necessary for ascertaining the practicability of a canal from the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River, and are preparing a full report on that subject, which, when completed, will be laid before you. The same observation is to be made with regard to the two other objects of national importance ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... found rocks on the Ohio river, near the Pennsylvania line, inscribed with figures of men, horses and other animals. At low water these ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various
... of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad takes us back more than ninety years. When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. Many of the famous men of that great day were still living. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had been dead only a year; ...
— The Railroad Builders - A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, Volume 38 in The - Chronicles of America Series • John Moody
... cowbell pendent from it. Since then the bird so ornamented has been seen a hundred times—and heard oftener—over an area as wide as half the continent. It has been reported, now in Kentucky, now in Texas, now in North Carolina—now anywhere between the Ohio River and the Gulf. Crossroads correspondents take their pens in hand to write to the country papers that on such and such a date, at such a place, So-and-So saw the Belled Buzzard. Always it is the Belled ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... the Ohio River, and some distance beyond. Then, satisfied that this expedition was routed utterly, ...
— The Keepers of the Trail - A Story of the Great Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler
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