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Title
Ohio
River
at
Manchester
Subject
Ohio River
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Manchester Township (Ohio)
Adams County (Ohio)
Description
Caption
on
reverse
reads
: "
Code
-
C
1
;
Class
.
-
Rivers
,
etc.
;
Ident
.
-
Ohio
River
;
Location
-
At
Manchester
; This
photo
must
be
returned
to
Ohio
Writers
'
Project
78
E
.
Chestnut
St.
,
Columbus
,
Ohio.
"
Manchester
is
located
approximately
74
miles
upstream
of
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
.
Originally
called
Massie's
Station
,
it
was the
first
permanent
white
settlement
within
the
Virginia
Military
District
,
built
along
the
Ohio
River
in
1790
and was
built
near
the "
Three
Islands
".
Native
Americans
used
these
islands
to
attack
settlers
traveling
down
the
Ohio
River
.
Nathanial
Massie
offered
nineteen
men
property
if they would
settle
in the
town
. He
used
the
settlement
as a
base
for his
survey
work
in the
district
. In
1791
,
Massie's
Station
became
known
as
Manchester
,
Ohio
.
Massie
named
the
community
after
Manchester
,
England
.
It
was the
fourth
permanent
settlement
established
in the
Northwest
Territory
. By
1791
,
residents
had
completely
encircled
the
community
with a
stockade
to
provide
protection
from
Native
Americans
.
Manchester
served
as the
county
seat
for
Adams
County
from
1797
to
1803
,
when
residents
moved
local
government
to
West
Union
.
Located
on the
Ohio
River
across
from the
slaveholding
state
of
Kentucky
,
Manchester
proved
an
important
community
along
the
Underground
Railroad
. The
larger
of the
two
remaining
islands
is
called
Manchester
, and the
smaller
is
called
Tow
Head
. They are
now
part
of the
Ohio
River
Islands
National
Wildlife
Refuges
under
the
supervision
of the
United
States
Fish
and
Wildlife
Service
. The
Ohio
River
is
the
largest
tributary
of the
Mississippi
River
and
is
about
981
miles
long
.
It
begins
at the
confluence
of the
Allegheny
and
Monongahela
rivers
in
Point
State
Park
in
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
.
It
forms
the
border
between
Ohio
and
West
Virginia
, as
well
as
Ohio
and
Kentucky
,
Indiana
and
Kentucky
and
Illinois
and
Kentucky
.
It
joins
the
Mississippi
near
Cairo
,
Illinois
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
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File Name
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Image Height
5136
Image Width
6183
File Size
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Display File Type
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Format
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Date created
2010-04-29
Date modified
2010-06-23
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