Information abstracted from 200 rare county histories & atlases published between 1876 and 1916.

No other region in America is so fraught with projected meaning as Appalachia. Many people who have never set foot in Appalachia have very definite ideas about

"Young Abraham Lincoln and his family joined the migration over the Ohio River, but it was Kentucky--the state of his birth--that shaped his personality and con

In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation

The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vibrant Afri