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additional information on the Wabash River, please visit the
Wabash Heritage Corridor Commission Web site. The Wabash has
always been Indiana's most famous river. Occupying the heartland
of the state, the river drains two-thirds of the 92 counties as
it flows over 475 miles to its confluence with the Ohio below
Mount Vernon. The river rises in Ohio near Fort Recovery and
flows for only thirty miles before it becomes entirely an
Indiana River. It is a river of many faces and moods. At times
it occupies a huge valley which was carved by a glacial runoff
but it also flows through a partially filled valley formed
before the glacial advances. In its upper stretches the Wabash
moves across the fertile, flat land in a narrow, shallow trench.
The Indians had called it the Wah-Bah Shik-Ki which meant "pure
white." When the French arrived t