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Youghiogheny| (Pronounced ‘Yockagaynee’ and popularly called ‘the Yok’) river flowing through West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, USA; length 217 km/135 mi. It rises in West Virginia, flows along the West Virginia–Maryland border into Pennsylvania, and joins the Monongahela River at McKeesport, southeast of Pittsburgh. |
Course From its source on the west side of Backbone Mountain, it flows northeast along the border and into Pennsylvania, through Youghiogheny River Lake, a reservoir formed by a 1944 dam near Confluence, Pennsylvania, where the Casselman River joins it from the northeast. The river continues northwest, through Laurel Hill and Chestnut Ridge, to the Monongahela. |
History The Youghiogheny, whose Algonquian name signifies ‘contrary’, flows away from the sea, into the Mississippi River system; rising near the Potomac's headwaters, it provided a short early route from the Atlantic coast into the interior. In the 1870s the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built through its valley, in which Connellsville, Pennsylvania, became a major provider of coal. |
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