Historical Marker
The Discovery of the Ohio River
Historical marker location:
Louisville, Kentucky
( S. end of George Rogers Clark Mem. Bridge at north end of 2nd St., Louisville)
In A.D. 1669 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, commissioned by the French officials of Louis XIV at Quebec, seeking a water route to China and Japan, guided by an Indian and accompanied by a party in canoes, descended this river, called by the Iroquois Indians the Ohio, meaning the beautiful river. Sponsored by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.