Maumee River
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The Maumee River is a river running in the Midwestern United States from northeastern Indiana into northwestern Ohio and Lake Erie. It is formed at the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys river
The Maumee River at Grand Rapids, Ohio
An Island in the Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio, 1909
Sheet's Island, Maumee River, Maumee, Ohio, 1900s
Huffman Island, Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio, 1907
Great Black Swamp
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The Great Black Swamp was a glacially fed wetland in northwest Ohio, northeast Indiana, and southeast Michigan that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century. Compri
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…Toledo was made unsafe for consumption for nearly a week in August 2014 because of such algae blooms. The Maumee River watershed was once part of the Great Black Swamp, a remnant of Glacial Lake Maumee, the proglacial ancestor of Lake Erie. The 1,500-square-mile (3,900 km2) swamp was a vast network of forests, wetlands…
A photo from a glacial ridge (near Benton Ridge) in the former Great Black Swamp. It overlooks a flat expanse of farmland with a ditch.
A replica of Fred the mastodon (Buesching mastodon), pictured left, based on fossils found west of the former Great Black Swamp. Pictured right is a female mastodon fossil.
Jesse Cornplanter's 1905 drawing (New York State Library) illustrating traditional Haudenosaunee bark lodge architecture. The Seneca held recognized territorial rights in the Sandusky River basin along the eastern margin of the Black Swamp prior to 19th-century federal cessions.
Charge of the Dragoons at Fallen Timbers by R.F. Zogbaum, 1895. It depicts the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Black Swamp.