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Monongahela River 5 (47)

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The Monongahela River (locally known as “the Mon”) is a 128-mile-long (206 km) river in the eastern United States. It flows from its source in north-central West Virginia northward into Western Pennsylvania, where it meets the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh’s Point State Park to form the Ohio River. 🗺️ Historically dubbed the “Ruhr of America,” […]

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