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The Elkhart River is a 48.3-mile-long (77.7 km) [1] tributary of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana in the United States. [2] It is almost entirely contained in Elkhart County . It begins as the South Branch Elkhart River from Port Mitchell Lake and the North Branch Elkhart River from Waldron Lake and merge to form the Elkhart River west ...
Boats of the Transat Québec–Saint-Malo on the St. Lawrence River in 2000 Cross commemorating the one laid by Jacques-Cartier on October 7, 1535, Trois-Rivières The Champlain Sea. With the draining of the Champlain Sea, due to a rebounding continent from the Last Glacial Maximum, the St. Lawrence River was formed. The Champlain Sea lasted ...
The Platte River (/ p l æ t /) is a major American river, in the state of Nebraska. It is about 310 mi (500 km) long; measured to its farthest source via its tributary, the North Platte River, it flows for over 1,050 miles (1,690 km).
St. Andrew Bay was the location of a large number of saltworks critical for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.Edward Crissey, in command of the steamboat USS Bloomer, which he had been instrumental in stealing from her berth near Geneva, Alabama, helped destroy numerous salt works, doing great damage to the Confederate war effort.
Cape San Blas Light. Port St. Joe is located in southern Gulf County at (29.807968, –85.297684), [8] within the Florida Panhandle and along the Emerald According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.1 square miles (31.3 km 2), of which 9.5 square miles (24.5 km 2) is land and 2.6 square miles (6.8 km 2), or 21.86%, is water.
Joseph (Hebrew: יוסף, romanized: Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
The Coal River from St. Albans to Upper Falls remains a federal government of the United States-designated navigable waterway. Beginning around 1800, flax mills and gristmills were built and operated along the river, yielding fiber for the production of textiles in addition to staples such as flour and cornmeal .
The St. Marys River, sometimes written St. Mary's River, drains Lake Superior, starting at the end of Whitefish Bay and flowing 74.5 miles (119.9 km) southeast into Lake Huron, with a fall of 23 feet (7.0 m). [1] For its entire length it is an international border, separating Michigan in the United States from Ontario, Canada.