When you deepen a river, you will naturally widen it also.Īfter a little research, I found two places with a little more information. My mom says that the river was deepened both by dredging the bottom and by adding locks and dams. Knowing from my mom that the locks and dams were put in place, chages the way we view the river now, but it doesn't diminish the great part it played in the crossing of Eliza, or others. That kind of passage could never occur with the depth and width of the river now. I do know that settlers made their way down the river via flatboats, and they used long "sticks" to manuver and guide the flatboats down the river. Ok, my mom know a whole lot more about how the Ohio River changed when they put in dams to aide the passage of steamboats.
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