Americans altered the pronunciation of the river's name, which became known as the " Betsie River ".

The Betsie River rises in neighboring Grand Traverse County, flowing southwest across the southeast corner of the county into Manistee County, where it bends northwest until just south of Benzonia where it receives the outflow of Crystal Lake and then flows mostly west through Elberta and Frankfort and into Lake Michigan.

Portions of the Pere Marquette State Forest lie within the county and offers several trails including a route along the Betsie River and a trail near Lake Ann.

of the Betsie River is a state-designated Natural River from Grass Lake, just west of the Grand Traverse County line, to its inlet into Lake Betsie just east of Elberta.

The village located in the east of Gilmore Township, on the south side of Lake Betsie, which is formed by the Betsie River before flowing into Lake Michigan.

The city is situated with Lake Michigan to the west, Lake Betsie, formed by the Betsie River before flowing into Lake Michigan, on the south and Crystal Lake Township to the north and east.

It followed the south shore of Lake Betsie ( formed by the Betsie River before flowing into Lake Michigan ).

The landscape here turns more agricultural as the highway skirts southwest of Thompsonville crossing the Betsie River.

* The Point Betsie Light is in the area and has been in operation for 150 years.

The southeastern end in downtown Clare is at an intersection with Business US Highway 127 ( BUS US 127 ) and BUS US 10 ; the northwestern end is at M-22 next to Betsie Lake.

M-168 began at a junction with M-22 just west of where M-22 crosses over Lake Betsie.

The second lot, also at the west end of Forest Avenue, was purchased by Dr. Alonzo J. Slyfield, who served for 22 years as keeper of the Point Betsie Light House.

* Friends of the Point Betsie Lighthouse.

Dutch underground members Corrie and Betsie ten Boom were held at Vught in 1944, before being sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Verwoerd's fiancee, Betsie Schoombie, joined him in Germany and they were subsequently married on 7 January 1927 in Hamburg.

A sister, brother and nephew were released, but Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie were sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where Betsie died.

Ten Boom and sister Betsie began taking in refugees, some of whom were Jews, others members of the resistance movement who were sought by the Gestapo and its Dutch counterpart.

Later, ten Boom and sister Betsie were sent to the Vught political concentration camp, and finally to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.

Betsie died there on December 16, 1944.

Betsie was Corrie's loving, spiritual, kind-hearted, forgiving sister, who stood by Corrie throughout all of their hardships.

Eventually, the road curves to the west where it intersects Betsie Valley Trail coming to its terminus shortly thereafter at the former Ann Arbor Railroad ferry docks.

In a conciliatory gesture, then President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, visited the town in 1995 to have tea with Betsie Verwoerd, widow of Hendrik Verwoerd.

Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins, is one of the outstanding tourist spots in Minnesota.

Even before Johnston arrived in Tennessee, two forts had been started to defend the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River which provided avenues into the State from the north.

Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine River in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Bakassi people are mainly the Calabar people, the people of Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, including the Efut, Efik, Ibibio, Annang, etc.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

The French consolidated their legal claim to the area through an 1887 convention with Congo Free State, which granted France possession of the right bank of the Oubangui River.

In September 1861, Atchison led 3, 500 State Guard recruits across the Missouri River to reinforce Price, and defeated Union troops that tried to block his force in the Battle of Liberty.

In 1968, with the help of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, McLean began reaching a wider public, with visits to towns up and down the Hudson River.

Downtown Kansas City itself is established by city Local ordinance | ordinance to stretch from the Missouri River south to 31st Street ( beyond the bottom of this map ), and from State Line Rd.

Downtown Kansas City is an area of bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the East, and State Line road to the West.

The LHWP is designed to capture, store, and transfer water from the Orange River system and send it to South Africa's Free State and greater Johannesburg area, which features a large concentration of South African industry, population and agriculture.

Following the war, 75 % of the area west of the Jordan River was controlled by the new State of Israel.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

The Grand River, the largest river in Michigan, flows through downtown Lansing ; and the Red Cedar River, a tributary of the Grand River, flows through the campus at Michigan State University.

In 1830 Captain Charles Sturt reached the river after travelling down its tributary the Murrumbidgee River and named it the Murray River in honour of the then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Sir George Murray, not realising it was the same river that Hume and Hovell had encountered further upstream.

The Ohio River is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

* Orange River Colony, the British colony that superseded the aforementioned Orange Free State

* Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13 – 25, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8071-2535-0.

The village of Lewiston, located on the lower portion of the Niagara River in Western New York State, celebrates an annual two day smelt festival.