WebThe Monongahela River (/ m ə ˌ n ɒ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ h iː l ə / mə-NONG-gə-HEE-lə, /-ˈ h eɪ-/-⁠ HAY-) —often referred to locally as the Mon (/ m ɒ n /)—is a 130-mile-long (210 km) river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania.The river flows from the confluence of its west and east forks in north-central West Virginia …

WebMonongahela, referred to locally as Mon City, is a third class city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of the Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is about 17 miles (27 km) south of Pittsburgh proper.The population was 4,149 at the 2020 census. The city of Monongahela sits at a location where several locally important …

WebThe Monongahela National Forest is a national forest located in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA.It protects over 921,000 acres (3,727 km 2; 1,439 sq mi) of federally managed land within a 1,700,000 acres (6,880 km 2; 2,656 sq mi) proclamation boundary that includes much of the Potomac Highlands Region and portions of 10 counties.

WebThe Youghiogheny River / j ɒ k ə ˈ ɡ eɪ n i /, or the Yough (pronounced Yok / ˈ j ɒ k /) for short, is a 134-mile-long (216 km) tributary of the Monongahela River in the U.S. states of West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.It drains an area on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains northward into Pennsylvania, providing a small watershed in …

WebHeadwaters and course. The Gauley rises in the Monongahela National Forest on Gauley Mountain in Pocahontas County as three streams, the North, Middle, and South Forks, each of which flows across the southern extremity of Randolph County; they converge in Webster County.The river then flows generally west-southwestwardly through Webster, Nicholas …

WebMonongahela: 1,300 891 906 96 French-allied Victory Lake George: 1700 1500 331 339 British-allied victory Fort William Henry ... Although the Algonquin tribes living north of the Great Lakes and along the St. Lawrence River were not directly concerned with the fate of the Ohio River Valley tribes, they had been victims of the Iroquois ...

WebThe Potomac River (/ p ə ˈ t oʊ m ə k / ()) drains the Mid-Atlantic United States, flowing from the Potomac Highlands into Chesapeake Bay.It is 405 miles (652 km) long, with a drainage area of 14,700 square miles (38,000 km 2), and is the fourth-largest river along the East Coast of the United States and the 21st-largest in the United States. Over 5 million …

WebThe United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The first national forest was established as the Yellowstone Park Timber and Land Reserve on March 30, 1891, then …

WebHistory. The mill occupies the historic site of Braddock's Field, on the banks of the Monongahela River east of Pittsburgh.On July 9, 1755, in the Battle of the Monongahela, French and Indian forces from Fort Duquesne defeated the expedition of British General Edward Braddock, who himself was mortally wounded.. Braddock's Field was also the …

WebThe Monongahela Incline is a funicular located near the Smithfield Street Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Designed and built by Prussian-born engineer John Endres in 1870, it is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the United States.. It is one of two surviving inclines in Pittsburgh (the other is the nearby Duquesne Incline) from the …