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No matter how you say it, it's a beautiful river!
Called Belle Riviere on mid-18th century French maps, the Allegheny River around Warren Pennsylvania
was last inhabited by the Seneca Indians (read more here), who continue to maintain a home on the
Allegheny River Watershed in Salamanca, New York. They still call the waters O-hi-yo, the oldest recorded
name, which early European explorers translated as belle riviere or "Beautiful River."
Called Belle Riviere on mid-18th century French maps, the Allegheny River around Warren Pennsylvania
was last inhabited by the Seneca Indians (read more here), who continue to maintain a home on the
Allegheny River Watershed in Salamanca, New York. They still call the waters O-hi-yo, the oldest recorded
name, which early European explorers translated as belle riviere or "Beautiful River."
Today, the region around Warren Pennsylvania has become a nationally recognized spot for canoeing
because of the calm waters, as well as nearby camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, and power boating
amenities in its Kinzua region.
So where did the names Allegheny River and Allegheny National Recreation Area come from? When the
Delaware, an Algonquian people, moved to western Pennsylvania in the 18th century and displaced the
Iroquois, they translated Iroquoian Ohio into Delaware, yielding welhik-heny, "most beautiful stream"
(welhik= "most beautiful"; heny= "stream"). The name Welhik-heny was then anglicized to Allegheny.
So, actually when we say "Allegheny River" we are being a little repetitious because this literally means
"Beautiful River river." Most people around here just say "The Allegheny" for short.
updated 4/25/06
because of the calm waters, as well as nearby camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, and power boating
amenities in its Kinzua region.
So where did the names Allegheny River and Allegheny National Recreation Area come from? When the
Delaware, an Algonquian people, moved to western Pennsylvania in the 18th century and displaced the
Iroquois, they translated Iroquoian Ohio into Delaware, yielding welhik-heny, "most beautiful stream"
(welhik= "most beautiful"; heny= "stream"). The name Welhik-heny was then anglicized to Allegheny.
So, actually when we say "Allegheny River" we are being a little repetitious because this literally means
"Beautiful River river." Most people around here just say "The Allegheny" for short.
updated 4/25/06
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