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〕 | length_imperial = 117 | length_round = 0 | length_note = | watershed_imperial = 1270 | watershed_round = 1 | watershed_note = | discharge_location = | discharge_round = | discharge_imperial = | discharge_note = | discharge_max_imperial = | discharge_min_imperial = 0 | discharge1_location = | discharge1_imperial = | discharge1_note = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = |map_alt = | map1 = Pennsylvania Locator Map.PNG | map1_size = 300 | map1_caption = Location of the mouth of French Creek in Pennsylvania | map1_alt = | map1_locator =Pennsylvania | commons = }} French Creek (also known as the Venango River) is a tributary of the Allegheny River in northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York in the United States. == Name == The stream has been sometimes called a river and sometimes a creek.〔 It is thought that the stream's Seneca name, ''in nungash'', was modified over time to ''Venango''. The phrase ''in nungash'' may have derived from ''Onenga'', the Seneca word for mink but may have stemmed from ''Winingus'', the Delaware word for the same animal. Interpretations of ''Venango'' have included "crooked", and the Seneca chief Cornplanter suggested that ''in nungash'' referred to a particular carving on a tree along the stream.〔 ''Venango'' was likewise the name of a native settlement at the creek's mouth, later the site of Franklin, Pennsylvania. In the 18th century, the stream was an important link between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River. The French built Fort Presque Isle and Fort Le Boeuf to control the portage from the stream's headwaters to Lake Erie. They called the stream ''Rivière aux Boeufs'' (Cattle River) because bison in the vicinity reminded them of French cattle. In 1753, George Washington, a British subject at the time, was sent to deliver a message to Fort Le Boeuf asking the French to leave the region.〔 Washington called the stream ''French Creek'' rather than ''Beef Creek'' (another common rendering of ''Rivière aux Boeufs''), and his version prevailed.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French Creek (Allegheny River)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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