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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]
The boat is currently owned by BB Riverboats and operates from Newport, Kentucky on the Ohio River. [2] Newport is across the river from Cincinnati, the namesake of the boat. She is used for excursions in the Cincinnati area and also make occasional trips to other Ohio River ports.
Louisville, Kentucky, and the associated Indiana communities—Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and New Albany—all owe their existence as communities to the falls, as the navigational obstacles the falls presented meant that late-18th-century and early- to late-19th-century river traffic could benefit from local expertise in navigating the 26 ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge more than 30 years ago to protect islands all along the Ohio, but most of the preserved land is along ...
McAlpine Locks and Dam (Only to Shippingport Island, not all the way across river) New Albany and Louisville (Falls of the Ohio) 1830 Fourteenth Street Bridge: Louisville and Indiana Railroad: Clarksville and Louisville 1868, 1919
The Ohio River Way Challenge is a 250-mile expedition down the Ohio River to raise support for river towns and recreation. Canoers travel 250-miles on voyage down Ohio River to Louisville ...
In 1929, the canalization project on the Ohio River was finished. The project produced 51 wooden wicket dams and 600 foot by 110 foot lock chambers along the length of the river. During the 1940s, a shift from steam propelled to diesel powered towboats allowed for tows longer than the 600 foot locks on the river.
In 2019, a similar algal bloom in the Ohio River resulted in the cancelation of the swimming portion of Louisville’s 2019 IRONMAN race, due to concerns for athlete safety.