Canoeing
Trip Reports

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OHIO- Wyandots; "great, grand, fair to look upon" - Iroquois; "beautiful", - Delaware Indian name Kittanning or "At the great river"

Olentangy- Originally called keenhongsheconsepung, a Delaware word literally translated as stone for your knife stream based on the shale found along its shores. Early settlers to the region translated this into Whetstone River. In 1833, the Ohio General Assembly passed legislation intending to restore the original Native American names to some Ohio waterways, but mistakenly gave Whetstone River the name Olentangy, Delaware for "river of the red face paint" which had actually belonged to what is now known as Big Darby Creek.

Paint Creek-

Portage- It most likely derives its name from early explorers who were forced to portage or carry their canoes and boats around the river's intermittent shallows and rapids.

Raccoon Creek-

Rocky Fork-

Rush Creek-

St. Joseph-

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