Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio

" America. Enterprise. Metropolis. Cairo. Rome. These are a few of the grandly named villages and towns along the lower Ohio River. The optimism with which early settlers named these towns reveals much about the history of American expansion. Though none became the next great American city, it was not for lack of ambition or entrepreneurial spirit. Why didn't a major city develop on the lower Ohio? What geographic, economic, and cultural factors caused one place to prosper and another to wither?

Author: Darrel E. Bigham
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 12/11/1997
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.28w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780813120423

About the Author

Darrel E. Bigham professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana and director of the Historic Southern Indiana Project, is the author of An Evansville Album: Perspectives on a River City.

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