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Falls and Ohio
In 1964, when Watterson was six years old, the family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother, Kathryn Watterson, became a city council member.
In previous years, he was known to sneak autographed copies of his books onto the shelves of the Fireside Bookshop, a family-owned bookstore in his home of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Jarmusch was born to a family of middle-class suburbanites in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in 1953.
He traveled from Canada and entered the headwaters of the Ohio, traveling as far as the Falls of Ohio at present-day Louisville before turning back.
Louisville was founded at the only major natural navigational barrier on the river, the Falls of the Ohio.
In the early 1980s, the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area was established at Clarksville, Indiana.
The maximum depth is below the McAlpine Locks and Dam at the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville, Kentucky, where flood stage is reached when the water reaches on the lower gauge.
A heavily used trace crossed the Ohio River at the Falls of the Ohio and ran west, crossing the Wabash River near Vincennes, Indiana.
Its regional headquarters is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the company has brewing facilities in Albany, Georgia ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin ; Eden, North Carolina ; Fort Worth, Texas ; Irwindale, California ; Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; and Trenton, Ohio.
* Bridal Veil Falls ( Ohio ), Bedford, Ohio
McFadden was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Category: People from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Veterans of the war were promised land and in 1773 Captain Thomas Bullitt was sent on a surveying expedition of the area around the Falls of the Ohio by the governor of Virginia.
The first settlement of the area and the first station on the Wilderness Road between Harrodsburg and the Falls of the Ohio was a fort called Brashear's Station or the Salt River Garrison, built in 1779 at the mouth of Floyd's Fork.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal starts in Georgetown and was used during the 19th century to bypass the Great Falls of the Potomac River, located upstream ( northwest ) of Washington at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line.
The town is home to the Colgate clock, one of the largest clocks in the world and the Falls of the Ohio State Park, a large fossil bed.
In 1778 he established a post on an island at the head of the Falls of the Ohio.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ( explorer ) | William Clark statue at the Falls of the Ohio State Park.
Due to the many floods in the nineteenth century and the Indiana Canal Company's failed competition to build a canal around the Ohio Falls, the town struggled.
On August 24, 1805 the Indiana Territorial Legislature authorized the construction of a canal around the Falls of the Ohio at Clarksville.
The lack of a canal handicapped the growth of the town as the Falls of the Ohio made river transport from the city difficult.
There was an attempt to build a second town within Clarksville's boundaries, named Ohio Falls City, until the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that this would be illegal.

Falls and State
* 1998 – 2002: Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
In 1855 Northup appears, along with family members, in the New York State Census listing for Glens Falls ( part of Queensbury ).
* April 30 – A bill is signed in the New York State legislature forming the Niagara Falls State Park.
Lewiston State Normal School, now Lewis-Clark State College, was established in 1893, as was another normal school or teacher education college, now defunct, in the south at Twin Falls.
Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls or Iguaçu Falls ( ; ; ) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of Brazilian State Paraná and Argentine Province Misiones.
The report advocated for State purchase, restoration and preservation through public ownership of the scenic lands surrounding Niagara Falls.
Most of these attractions lie within the Niagara Falls State Park.
* Niagara Falls: Niagara Reservation ( now Niagara Falls State Park ), dedicated in 1885
* De Veaux Woods State Park, north of the City of Niagara Falls.
* Devil's Hole State Park, immediately north of the City of Niagara Falls.
* Niagara Reservation State Park, in the City of Niagara Falls.
Some of the opening scenes were filmed at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park.
Spanning the river at the border of McCreary and Whitley counties, the waterfall is the central feature of Cumberland Falls State Resort Park.
File: BerryCreekFalls. jpg | Berry Creek Falls in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California, is an example of a cascade waterfall.
File: Sempervirens Falls. JPG | Sempervirens Falls in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California, is an example of a plunge-punchbowl waterfall.
Unlike the much larger Horseshoe Falls, of which two-thirds of the falls is located in Ontario, Canada and one-third in New York State, United States, the American Falls is completely within the U. S. state of New York.
* Bridal Veil Falls ( DuPont State Forest ), DuPont State Forest, North Carolina

Falls and Park
The main tourist attractions are Ebor Falls, Wollomombi Falls, the cool temperate rainforest walks in New England National Park and recreational trout fishing.
A stone marker in Falls Park in the Pendleton Historic District commemorates this event.
* Cascade Falls Park: one of the larger parks in the country.
* Legion Park, a stadium in Great Falls, Montana
The Great Falls ( Passaic River ) | Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, New Jersey | Paterson, dedicated as a U. S. National Park in November 2011, incorporates one of the largest waterfall s in the eastern United States.
Virginia has 30 National Park Service units, such as Great Falls Park and the Appalachian Trail, and one national park, the Shenandoah National Park.
* Augrabies Falls National Park
These were the words used by Andre Rebouças, an engineer, in his book " Provinces of Paraná, Railways to Mato Grosso and Bolivia ", which started up the campaign aimed at preserving the Iguaçu Falls in 1876, when Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was four years old.
In the same year, the province of Ontario established the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park for the same purpose.
From the U. S. side, the American Falls can be viewed from walkways along Prospect Point Park, which also features the Prospect Point Park observation tower and a boat dock for the Maid of the Mist.
On the Canadian side, Queen Victoria Park features manicured gardens, platforms offering spectacular views of both the American and Horseshoe Falls, and underground walkways leading into observation rooms which yield the illusion of being within the falling waters.
* Panorama Niagara Falls Panorama found at Queen's Park, Toronto.
Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

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