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The Allegheny River

From its headwater glade in Potter County, Pennsylvania, the Allegheny River meanders 314 miles to its mouth where it joins the Monongahela to form the Ohio River.  Its curvaceous slopes trace the edge of the last Ice Age, when the Wisconsinan Glacier diverted meltwater south from its original northward flow into Lake Erie.  Attendent to [...]