Cairo Illionis (What happened?)

Factual Questions
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Fort Wayne is, indeed, a valid example of a fort/town built to control a communication route rather than one built with hopes for expanding trade. Hey! Cut me some slack! I did the whole routine by memory! :wink: (And, of course, the St. Mary is quite a bit smaller than the Auglaize, allowing canoe traffic in the eighteenth century, but not really usable by bateaux. Fort Wayne is also a slight anomaly in that it is a site where white settlers initially established the town because of its proximity to a native town. There are several other cities founded as trading posts next to Indian towns, but they are not a really common phenomenon.)

I’m curious about Sacramento. Is the American really a navigable river?

Tom~

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You can navigate in a small boat, but I don’t believe you can take barges down it. The Sacramento River had a separate channel dug for ships.

I’ve been under the impression that the American River is more of a river used for recreational rather than commercial purposes.