Did you know one of the facts about Ohio is that it was named after the Seneca word for river? The Seneca people, who spoke Seneca, an Iroquoian language, named Ohio after the Ohio River.

In its virgin splendor, the Ohio River awed the French explorer, La Salle, and all who came after him. The French called it La Belle Riviere, meaning, as Poet Carl Sandburg explained ...