Monongahela

Meanings

1. An Iroquoian Native American culture from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia, whose sites have been mostly found in the Monongahela River valley.

1. A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.
2. A city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Etymology

From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).