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The river has given Indiana a few theme songs, such as On the Banks of the Wabash, The Wabash Cannonball and Back Home Again, In Indiana. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Wabash is the longest free-flowing river east of the Mississippi River , traversing 400 miles (640 km) from the Huntington dam to the Ohio River.
In 1982 a seven-volume study conducted by the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force was issued by the Appalachian Regional Commission which investigated the issue of absentee land ownership. The study covered 80 counties in six states approximating the area designated "Southern Appalachia" as defined by Thomas R. Ford's 1962 work.
French Broad River: 340~320 Tennessee River: Dissects the Appalachian Mountains, formed by the Alleghenian orogeny, 320–340 ma. The New, Susquehanna, and French Broad are the only significant rivers that fully dissect the Appalachian core; the Hudson River is of more recent geologic origin. [4] New: 325~260 Kanawha River
St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) Elkhart River; Little Elkhart River; Pigeon River; Fawn River; Galena River, becomes the Galien River in Michigan; Trail Creek; East Arm Little Calumet River
In Georgia, the Divide generally separates the Apalachicola River, watershed in the west from the Savannah River and Altamaha River watersheds to the east, passing through the Atlanta metropolitan area and extending past the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains southeasterly across the Georgia plateau. In southern Georgia, it separates the ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... in Category:Rivers of Indiana by county. It should hold all the pages in the county-level categories, and may hold other ...
The Appalachian Mountains in both countries nurtured unique cultural identities that persist to this day. The isolation of these mountainous regions allowed for the development of distinctive music, folklore, and traditions. Appalachian music played a significant role in the broader evolution of American and Canadian music genres.
[1] [2] [3] Indiana is ranked 38th in land area [1] and is the smallest state in the contiguous U.S. west of the Appalachian Mountains. [4] Indiana's capital and largest city is Indianapolis, [5] the second largest of any state capital and largest state capital east of the Mississippi River. [citation needed]