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By Kim M. Gruenwald
"Gruenwald's booklet will make an identical contribution to ancient wisdom of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier service provider did for our realizing of the mercantile Midwest within the mid-nineteenth century.... a finely crafted narrative that shall we the reader take into account that the Ohio River constantly served extra as an artery, that's, a river of trade, than a dividing line or boundary." -- R. Douglas harm, writer of The Ohio FrontierRiver of company explores the position the Ohio performed in the lives of 3 generations of settlers from the river's headwaters at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky. half One examines the ideas of colonists who coveted lands "Across the Mountains" as house to be conquered. half lines the emergence of a brand new sector in a valley remodeled via trade because the Ohio River turned the artery of stream in "the Western Country." half 3 unearths how relatives among buddies around the river cooled as citizens of "the Buckeye country" got here to treat the river because the boundary among North and South. From 1790 to 1830, the Ohio River nurtured a neighborhood identification as americans strove to create an empire in keeping with the binds of trade in frontier Ohio and Kentucky, and the backcountry of Pennsylvania and Virginia. The booklet stories the neighborhood, neighborhood, and nationwide connections created via retailers through tracing the company global of the Woodbridge relatives of Marietta, Ohio. merely as nearby advertisement issues gave strategy to statewide commercial matters, and as synthetic transportation networks reminiscent of canals and railroads supplanted the river, did these residing to the north outline the Ohio as a boundary.
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The limited market during the Indian wars meant that competition between merchants was keen, and whoever received their goods first made what money was to be had. The main army sometimes moved through, heading west, days before a big shipment arrived—those sales were lost, although the local militia represented a continual market during the summer. 20 Reliable shipping presented a problem as well. Woodbridge believed that shipments arrived late because the middleman in Pittsburgh did not get them out on time.
37 IV Rivalry between settlements along the western rivers proved fierce. In 1789 John Cleves Symmes reported that “a number of towns are building on the banks of the Ohio from Pittsburgh to Louisville, and even further down the river. 38 But the residents of Limestone proved to be prophetic. Before the settlements of Cincinnati and Marietta were three years old, the outbreak of war with the Delaware Indians and their allies interrupted all the carefully laid plans of the people settling Ohio. During the 1780s the American army had established numerous forts in the Western Country, but it lacked the troops to enforce peace.
But when Cutler visited Marietta that first summer, he found friendly relations ongoing between the neighbors north and south of the Ohio River. 21 Over the course of the next spring and summer, the Ohio Company established a settlement fourteen miles down the Ohio at Belpre. They also built a blockhouse twenty miles up the Muskingum at the site of presentday Beverly and a mill nearby on Wolf Creek; together these settlements came to be called Waterford. 22 As Marietta grew, the Ohio River itself proved to be as important an actor in the drama of settlement as the people themselves.