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Boats Leave Daily: 1905

The Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1905. "The levee at Louisville." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

The Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1905. "The levee at Louisville." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

 

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Hogsheads

I don't know about that wagon specifically, but tobacco is still shipped in hogsheads like that, and given the location I'd say its likely that's what in those.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/king/ill407.html

Retelling

Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Bent saved the pilot house after the 1917 sinking. The Ohio Historical Society obtained title and in 1976 and moved it to the grounds of the Ohio River Museum in Marietta. The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen funded restoration in 1977.

Tell City Today

The Tell City wheelhouse at the Ohio River Museum in Marietta.

Colgate

The wharfboat appears to be a retired sternwheeler. If you look closely you can see the hog chains and the cutouts for the paddlewheel pitman arm. Also across the river is perhaps the old prison which later became Colgate Toothpaste Company. Colgate closed its doors forever early 2009 I believe.

Mystery Freight

Wonder what might be in those casks on the wagon. Some sort of dry goods, I'd imagine.

Tell City Lives On

According to the Historic Harrison County website, the "Tell City" sank in 1917 at Little Hocking, Ohio. The pilot house was taken off the boat and placed on a lawn and used as a summer house. It was given to the Steamboat Museum at Marietta College in Ohio some years later.

http://digital.evpl.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/evaphotos&CISOPTR...

Color

I can imagine the lettering on the wharfboat to be a bright red! What could those huge barrels contain?

I Looked It Up

Wharf boats were used in places where the water level could change dramatically. I was really curious about that thing.

A Crime on the Levee

Notice Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson combing the levee for clues. Or maybe they're just merchants!

Hitched

That's a "unicorn hitch" with three draft animals, two on the wheel and one out front. It's a rare variation, however, with a horse and two mules.

Samuel Clemens

Where is Huck Finn? I can imagine that this would have been a familiar sight for him.

Tote that barge, lift that bale.

Nice shot of a working wharfboat. That is Jeffersonville, Indiana, across the river, home to Howard's Shipyards, where the Tell City was built in 1889.

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