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This
river has been around for a really long time. A lot of
people have told its history, but let me tell you what really
happened. I'm sure that you know that water is just recycled over
and over again. We call that the "hydrologic
cycle". Because of that I have been in
and out of the Cuyahoga River for years and years. I guess you
could say that the Cuyahoga and I are old friends. |
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Well,
back to the true story of the Cuyahoga.About 20,000 years ago
glaciers,
large masses of ice that move across the land, carved out a new
valley and that new valley is where the Cuyahoga River formed.
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Then
around 12,000 years ago, some Native Americans
settled along the Cuyahoga.
The Native Americans were the first people to live near and use this river. As a matter of fact, |
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American Indians gave it a name! "Cuyahoga" is a Haudenosaunee or Iroquois word which means Crooked River.
That's because, of course, the Cuyahoga River actually forms
a "U" shape.
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There
were several Native American tribes that used this river until
the 1600's when the first European settlers
arrived here. They set up trading posts along the river. One very important trading post was located on Tinker's Creek.
This
is the time when this river actually started to become commercialized
that is, it was used for making money. Not long after that,
military posts were set up and then along came a war; the Revolutionary
War.
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