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The Monongahela River valley was the site of a famous battle that was one of the first in the French and Indian War—the Braddock Expedition (May–July 1755). It resulted in a sharp defeat for two thousand British and Colonial forces against those of the French and their Native American allies.
Monongahela was founded in 1769 on a tract of land near the confluence of Pigeon Creek and the Monongahela River. It is the oldest settlement in the Monongahela River Valley and most likely the oldest in Washington County. [6] The word Monongahela is Native American in origin, meaning "falling banks".
This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Monongahela River starting from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the river helps to form the headwaters of the Ohio River, and ending in Fairmont, West Virginia, where the West Fork River and Tygart Valley River combine to form the Monongahela.
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's ...
The ancestral Monongahela River, referred to as the Pittsburgh River, had flowed northwards from West Virginia, past Pittsburgh, into the Lake Erie basin and out the St. Lawrence River to the ocean. The lake began when the ice dammed the valley near Pittsburgh. [ 2 ]
The Cheat River is a 78.3-mile-long (126.0 km) [5] tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States.Via the Ohio River, the Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River watershed.
Monongahela, a 1988 album by The Oak Ridge Boys; Monongahela, a genus of prehistoric fish; Monongahela virus, an Orthohantavirus; Monongahela culture, a Native American group; USS Monongahela, one of various ships of the United States Navy; the Mon Valley, a variant name of the PATrain commuter rail service; Monongahela, a whaleship lost in 1853.
Turtle Creek is a 21.1-mile-long (34.0 km) [2] tributary of the Monongahela River that is located in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [3] Situated at its juncture with the Monongahela is Braddock, Pennsylvania, where the Battle of the Monongahela ("Braddock's Defeat") was fought in 1755.