1913 flood. Read more here.
accompanying story, but was not taken at Carrollton. Full details on the whole episode here.
the Kentucky River for a while (c. 1903) .
The Loucinda served the Louisville-Madison-Cincinnati route c. 1910-1918.
The Hattie Brown. She usually ran between Warsaw, Carrollton and Madison.
A little more about the Hattie Brown is here.
Lots more pictures of the Hattie are in the Gallatin pages, here.
“The breaking up of the ice in the river, on Saturday, caused considerable damage to steamboats, coalboats, etc. to Louisville. The Courier says seventeen boats were sunk, the most of them laden for the south.” The Carrollton Courier, February 7, 1852 Typical of the news coverage of the time is this column of River News from Carrollton papers of 1868. Similar columns ran in virtually all the papers of the river towns.
Accident in 1901 puts 175,000 bushels of coal in the river here. Since virtually everyone cooked and heated with coal, that was an issue.
The Explosion of the Steamer Redstone above Carrollton in 1852, here. (pdf) An 1894 account of the first steamboat on the Ohio River in 1811-12, here.
from an October,1872 newspaper clipping; which paper and exact date are unknown.
The General Lytle would eventually end up as the Carrollton wharf boat.
The tow Mabel with barges.
A page of steamboat links can be found at this site.