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Muskingum River History
Please check out the links under this heading for pages featuring a variety of stories.
The 1913 Flood on the Lower Muskingum
Steamboating on the Muskingum
I recently found a copy of The Ohio Valley Flood of March-April, 1913 (printed in 1913) and compiled by A.H. Horton and H.J. Jackson for the Dept. of the Interior, USGS. It is largely statistical with many tables and photos and does focus mainly on the Ohio River.
However, it does note that: "The effect of the northern tributaries in Ohio on the stages of the main stream is most marked from Marietta to Maysville and throughout this portion of the Ohio, new high-water records were established. The Muskingum River was more instrumental than any other single tributary in causing the record-breaking stages on the Ohio, as shown by the fact that previously recorded maxima were surpassed at Marietta and Parkersburg by 5 to 5.5 feet..." LN
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