Information AboutWabash River |
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| rivers of illinois | |
| rivers of indiana | |
| rivers of ohio | |
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When the Wisconsin Glacier melted 14,000 years ago, the Wabash River drained Glacial Lake Maumee , the ancestor to Lake Erie . HISTORY The name "Wabash" is an English spelling of the French name for the river, "Ouabache." French traders named the river after the Miami Indian word for the river, "Wabashike," (Prounounced "Wah-bah-she-keh"), the word for "pure white." The Miami name reflected the clarity of the river in Huntington County, Indiana where the river bottom is Limestone . This is a historical oddity since today the river bottom is no longer visible due to Water Pollution and agricultural siltation. For 200 years, from the mid- 1600s into the 1800s , the Wabash was a major trading route, linking Canada , Quebec and the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River . A 329 acre remnant of the Old-growth Forest s that once bordered the Wabash can be found at Beall Woods State Park , near Mount Carmel, Illinois . In the 1800s , the Wabash And Erie Canal , one of the longest Canal s in the world, was built. MAJOR TRIBUTARIES The major tributaries of the Wabash River include:
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CITIES AND TOWNS ALONG THE WABASH RIVER Illinois Indiana
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