Hocking

The Hocking River flows southeast through the wooded hills of Ohio to join the Ohio River. Its older name, Hockhocking, refers to a bottle: near its headwaters the stream narrows above a waterfall and widens below it, giving the watercourse a distinctive shape. In 1774 Lord Dunmore's force reached the mouth of the Hocking before advancing toward Shawnee towns on the Scioto during the war that bears his name.