The maps and journals of the explorers helped to define the boundaries during the negotiations leading to the Adams – Onís Treaty, which set the western boundary as follows: north up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to its intersection with the 32nd parallel, due north to the Red River, up the Red River to the 100th meridian, north to the Arkansas River, up the Arkansas River to its headwaters, due north to the 42nd parallel and due west to its previous boundary.

Besides the navigable waterways already named, there are the Sabine ( Sah-BEAN ), forming the western boundary ; and the Pearl, the eastern boundary ; the Calcasieu ( KAL-cah-shew ), the Mermentau, the Vermilion, Bayou Teche, the Atchafalaya ( a-CHAF-a-LI-a ), the Boeuf ( bEHf ), Bayou Lafourche, the Courtableau, Bayou D ' Arbonne, the Macon, the Tensas ( TEN-saw ), Amite River, the Tchefuncte ( CHA-Funk-ta ), the Tickfaw, the Natalbany, and a number of other smaller streams, constituting a natural system of navigable waterways, aggregating over long.

The Sabine River (; Alibamu: Sabìina, Sabìnka ) is a river, long, in the U. S. states of Texas and Louisiana.

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Approximately south of Orange, Texas, it meets the Neches River from the west to form the and Sabine Lake, which drains through Sabine Pass to the Gulf of Mexico.

In Jack Kerouac's 1955 novel, On The Road, the book's narrator Sal Paradise and other prominent character Dean Moriarty ( an alias of Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady ) encounter the Sabine River.

Blues singer Alger " Texas " Alexander wrote a song called the " Sabine River Blues ".

Up to around 450, 000 gallons ( about 11, 000 bls ) of crude oil spilled over the Sabine River when the tanker Eagle Otome which was carrying the shipment struck two chemical-carrying barges due to loss of engine power on January 24, 2010, at 10 AM local time.

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* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.

) There are saltwater marshes in much of the southeastern part of Orange County that borders the Sabine River.

Chemical Road crosses a branch off of the Sabine River and Cow Bayou.

The Neches River (; Alibamu: Nìichi ) flows for through east Texas to its mouth on Sabine Lake near the Rainbow Bridge.

It was organized on December 14, 1837, and named for the Sabine River, which forms its eastern border.

The county is bounded on the north by Pine Island Bayou, on the northeast by the Neches River, and on the east by Sabine Lake and the mouth of the Sabine River, a natural outlet called Sabine Pass.

A scene from Leech's Comic History of Rome, depicting the Rape of the Sabine Women.

* Pohl, Manfred & Sabine Freitag ( European Association for Banking History ) ( 1994 ).

* History Under Siege: Sabine Pass battlefield designated by CWPT as one of the top 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields of 2009

The English 19th Century satirical painter John Leech included in his Comic History of Rome a depiction of the Rape of the Sabine Women, where the women are portrayed, with a deliberate anachronism, in Victorian costume and being carried off from the " Corona et Ancora " (" Crown and Anchor ", a common English pub sign in seafaring towns ).

According to the Deep East Texas Council of Governments the region consists of the following twelve counties: Angelina, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler.

From the dam site, which is north of Burkeville, TX, the reservoir extends up the river for about to Logansport, LA, and inundates land in Sabine, Shelby, Panola and Newton Counties, Texas, and Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana.

It is distributed in the Jasper trade area, which includes parts of Jasper, Newton, Sabine and Tyler counties.

He represented Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby and Tyler counties, and portions of Montgomery and Smith counties.

As a young man, Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers operated a small store at Brown's Bluff on the Sabine in Gregg County, Texas.

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Orange County is the county in the very southeastern corner of Texas, with a boundary with Louisiana but does not have a seacoast on the Gulf of Mexico as Jefferson County and Sabine Lake border Orange County to the South.

Orange County is bordered on its east by the Sabine River-the border with Louisiana, on its southeast by Sabine Lake, on its west by Jefferson County-its parent county, and on its north by three different counties of Texas.

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana, Teton County, Wyoming and Teton County, Idaho, Big Horn County, Wyoming and Big Horn County, Montana, Park County, Wyoming and Park County, Montana, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida respectively.

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The Sabine rises in northeast Texas by the union of three branches: the Cowleech Fork, Caddo Fork, and South Fork.

The city of Port Arthur, Texas, sits along the western shore of Sabine Lake.

After the independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in 1836, the boundary between the U. S. and Texas was firmly established at the Sabine in accordance with the Adams-Onís Treaty.

During the American Civil War, on September 8, 1863, a small Confederate force thwarted a Union invasion of Texas at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, fought at the mouth of the river.

The lower river south of Orange, Texas, to Sabine Lake forms part of the Intracoastal Waterway, carrying barge traffic.

Gerald Duff, novelist and short story writer, has set several of his works in the territory of the Sabine, including the stories " Texas Wherever You Look ," " The Way a Blind Man Tracks Light ," and " Redemption ".

The Bronx River: An Environmental and Social History.

and Merh, S. S. ( editors ): Vedic Saraswati: Evolutionary History of a Lost River of Northwestern India ( 1999 ) Geological Society of India ( Memoir 42 ), Bangalore.

* 1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan

Besides the horses, Saratoga County is also known for its role in American History, being the home of the Battle of Saratoga < The Saratoga National Historical Park is located along the Hudson River in Stillwater, and features a drive-around trail where you can drive up to each station.

* Hagerman, Bart, Operation Varsity: Allied Airborne Assault Over the Rhine River World War II History Magazine, ( 1998 ), pp. 1 – 5

For more information see RRS: History of the Red River Valley Dam

" Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History ( Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall ), 2006, 162-180.

* Chaney, Michael P. White Pine on the Saco River: An Oral History of River Driving in Southern Maine ( University of Maine Press, 1993 )

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the Arkansas Band of the Osage Nation settled in the Three Forks area ( the junction of the Arkansas River, Grand River and Verdigris River during the 1760s and established two villages called Pasuga and Pasona in what is now Rogers County.

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture states that archaeological evidence indicates that humans first lived in this area in the Verdigris River valley over six thousand years ago.

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*" Life on the Ohio " River History Museum reflects Vevay's and Switzerland County's heritage on the Ohio River.

* Bennie Hixon, a former principal of Mangham High School, self-published The History of Mangham and the Big Creek — Boeuf River to 1940.

10 ) states that it grew in Syria ; and, according to Pliny's Natural History, it was also a native plant of the Niger River and the Euphrates.

Excerpted from the Deer River Centennial History

History records that in the year 1800, an Urban Asherbranner ( or Asherbramer or Asherbrauner ) settled on the upper portion of the Castor River, just where the river empties its waters into Mingo Bottom, and where the village of Zalma is now situated, built a log and brush dam and erected a water mill to grind corn.

History notes " a spectacular train wreck " near Waterloo in 1873, when a $ 30, 000 cargo of fish bound for California fell into the Elkhorn River just east of the town.

The History of Chester Heights predates grants of William Penn, when the Swedes had penetrated some distance inland from the Delaware River and had found the rich soil very conducive to productive farming.