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Hornblower Cruises is a San Francisco–based charter yacht, dining cruise and ferry service company. In 2021, the company rebranded most of its services as City Cruises or City Experiences. In 2024, the company filed for bankruptcy protection. [1]
The system was renamed the McAlpine Locks and Dam in 1960 in honor of William McAlpine, who was the only civilian to have ever served as district engineer for the Corps of Louisville. At present, the normal pool elevation is 420 feet (130 m) above sea level and the drainage area above the dam is 91,170 square miles (236,000 km 2 ).
On May 2, attorney Abner L. Duncan, representing the shareholders of the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company, posted bail and made arrangements for Shreve and the Enterprise to be released. On May 6, Shreve and the Enterprise finally departed New Orleans and, after a voyage of 1,500 miles, reached Louisville on May 31. [1]
The Louisville and Portland Canal was a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) [1] canal bypassing the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky.The Falls form the only barrier to navigation between the origin of the Ohio at Pittsburgh and the port of New Orleans near the Gulf of Mexico; circumventing them was long a goal for Pennsylvanian and Cincinnatian merchants. [2]
For the next month, Roosevelt waited for the waters of the Ohio River to rise enough for New Orleans to safely pass (with a draft of less than 6 in (15 cm)) over the treacherous "Falls of the Ohio". [17] Roosevelt spent the extra time in the area making a brief trip upstream to Cincinnati before returning to Louisville to cross the Falls. [17]
The Ohio River Way Challenge is a 250-mile expedition down the Ohio River to raise support for river towns and recreation.
Hornblower & Marshall, a U.S. architectural firm; Hornblower and Page, a former finance firm, predecessor to Hornblower and Weeks that was founded by Henry Hornblower; Hornblower & Weeks, a former investment banking firm founded in 1888; Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co., a former Wall Street brokerage firm; The Hornblower Brothers, a British band
An early map of the Falls of the Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky is in the lower right The area is located at the Falls of the Ohio, which was the only navigational barrier on the river in earlier times. The falls were a series of rapids formed by the relatively recent erosion of the Ohio River operating on 386-million-year-old Devonian hard ...