Sidewheel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ferry" class="extiw" title="w:ferry">ferry</a> "Boone No. 7" (doc. # 236465) tied off at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.andersonferry.org/">Anderson Ferry</a>.
<p>Ohio River mile 478.
Constance, Kentucky.
Nov. 1987.
File # 87k034.
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This sidewheel ferry was built in 1937 by Stanwood Corp. at Covington, Ky..
Originally steam, it was converted to a 178 hp. Cummins diesel in 1947.
It was owned by Richard Kottmyer, Constance, Ky., until 1986, when it was sold to Paul W. Anderson, Verona, Ky.
</p><p>Anderson Ferry was also known as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nkyviews.com/boone/boone_constance_anderson.htm">Kottmyer's Ferry</a> and has apparently been owned by either the Anderson or Kottmyer families for almost two centuries, ever since George Anderson bought the ferry from Raleigh Colston in 1817.
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/70020260@N04">William Alden</a> from Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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