Ohio River Environmental Assessment. Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Report, Ohio
Ohio River Environmental Assessment. Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Report, Ohio

Author: CORPS OF ENGINEERS HUNTINGTON WV HUNTINGTON DISTRICT.

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Published: 1978

Total Pages: 102

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The goal of this study was to prepare a systematic listing of information on known cultural resources in the Ohio Valley of Ohio. This data will be used to evaluate the effects of continued operation of the Ohio River Navigation System on cultural resources. The data will also be used for planning purposes such as preparing master plan updates and updating the inventories of cultural resources on Corps owned and Corps controlled lands on the Ohio River. For the purposes of this report, cultural resources have been divided into prehistoric and historic. Prehistoric resources include mounds, camps, villages ad other habitation loci of native populations prior to 1750 A.D. Historic resources post-date the beginning of the Colonial period in the Ohio Valley and include sites of historic structures, districts, and historic archaeological sites. Together these resources contain the unwritten documents of mankind's cultural achievements in technology, economy, esthetics, domestic and public architecture, as well as the data base for understanding cultural continuities and changes.

Ohio River Environmental Assessment: Cultural Resources Reconnaissance, Pennsylvania
Ohio River Environmental Assessment: Cultural Resources Reconnaissance, Pennsylvania

Author: James B Richardson (III.)

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Published: 1977

Total Pages: 172

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The authors of this study have been asked to compile and present a summary of prehistoric and historic cultural resources from the inception of the Ohio River and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the western border of that state. Additionally, we were asked to examine the slack water navigation limits of both the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers which unite at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio. This report consequently covers approximately 7 rivermiles on the Allegheny above the forks of the Ohio and approximately 12 rivermiles on the Monongahela in addition to the approximately 40 rivermiles of the Ohio from Pittsburgh to the Pennsylvania border with the state of Ohio. We have attempted to present in attenuated form, a synopsis of historical and archaeological data relevant to such an undertaking. In this attempt, we have limited ourselves primarily to secondary historical sources for the area, which are numerous. No single work, however, deals exclusively with prehistoric and/or historic site locales within the confines of the study area of this report which is defined as roughly 1 kilometer on either side of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania and its major tributaries as outlined above. We have attempted therefore to sift through much of the historical data for western Pennsylvania and to contrast and compare the findings in that data relevant to an assessment of the cultural resources of the study area.

Ohio River Environmental Assessment Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Technical Report for the State of Kentucky Portion
Ohio River Environmental Assessment Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Technical Report for the State of Kentucky Portion

Author: Anne Tobbe Bader

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Published: 1977

Total Pages: 205

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A study of the Kentucky portion of the Ohio River Valley was conducted in order to determine the number and distribution of known prehistoric and historic sites within one kilometer of the River. This study is to be used for the completion of an Environmental Assessment of the entire length of the Ohio River. The study resulted in data on 521 sites, 406 archaeological and 115 historic distributed over 29 counties. It must, however, be assumed that this compilation represents only the tip of the iceberg. Such a phenomenon is observed most strikingly when one observes the great addition of sites to Boone County by a survey of East Bend Bottoms, the same outstanding type of addition of sites to Trimble County by the survey of Wise's Landing and finally the most singular instance of intensive survey where two small plots outside Paducah, McCracken County, yielded over 35 sites to the investigators from Southern Illinois University. The study area delimited by this project consists of the Kentucky side of the Ohio River from the West Virginia line, River Mile 317, to its juncture with the Mississippi, River Mile 981. Sites were to be located only on the floodplain to the distance of one kilometer from the bank of the Ohio, or up to the base of the bluffs, and inward up the Ohio's major tributaries until the first impoundment was reached.