Along The Ohio River

Author : Robert Schrage,Donald Clare
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 073854308X

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Along the Ohio River by Robert Schrage,Donald Clare Pdf

An illustrated journey along the Ohio River offers photographic images of this dynamic and important American waterway, including riverfront cities, commerce, industry, natural and scenic wonders, and more, from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky. Original.

Author : Patricia Willis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780380731510

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Danger Along the Ohio by Patricia Willis Pdf

Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793, twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture by the Shawnee Indians.

Author : Jerry M. Hay
Publisher : Inland Waterways Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781605852171

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Ohio River Guidebook by Jerry M. Hay Pdf

This is a practical guidebook to navigating the Ohio River and traveling along the river from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois. It includes detailed navigational charts and historical information about the river, its locks, tributaries, islands, and anchorage locations. It also covers river-friendly cities, towns and communities as well as highways and roads adjacent or leading to the river. It includes GPS coordinates, distance markers, and warnings.

Author : Joe William Trotter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813109507

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River Jordan by Joe William Trotter Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.

Author : David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson
Publisher : University of Florida Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683402030

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Falls of the Ohio River by David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson Pdf

Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, demonstrating how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years.

Author : Andrew Borowiec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004473433

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Along the Ohio by Andrew Borowiec Pdf

The pictures concentrate on the common scenes of everyday life and work, especially in the small, mostly blue-collar towns along the Ohio. While taking these photographs, Borowiec says, he came to realize that "the region's story was central to America's evolution from colonial wilderness to industrial superpower.""--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael C. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Ohio River
ISBN : UVA:X030448315

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History of Navigation in the Ohio River Basin by Michael C. Robinson Pdf

Author : Russell G. Ryle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0738507393

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Ohio River Images by Russell G. Ryle Pdf

Provides photographs of the Ohio River and the packet boats that sailed it during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307790460

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That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. Eckert Pdf

An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.

Author : Nancy Stearns Theiss
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467143752

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Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River, A by Nancy Stearns Theiss Pdf

Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana and Ohio. The river beckoned fugitive slave Henry Bibb onto a steamboat at Madison, Indiana, headed to Cincinnati, where he discovered the Underground Railroad. Upriver from Cincinnati, a lantern signal high on a hill from the Rankin House in Ripley, Ohio, stirred others to flee for freedom. These stories and more along the borderland of the Ohio River also served as the setting for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which became an inspiration of human resistance. Author Nancy Theiss, PhD, takes readers on a tour through American history to places of courage and sacrifice.

Author : Matthew Salafia
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208665

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Slavery's Borderland by Matthew Salafia Pdf

In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical boundary and a unifying economic and cultural force that muddied the distinction between southern and northern forms of labor and politics. Countering the tendency to emphasize differences between slave and free states, Salafia argues that these systems of labor were not so much separated by a river as much as they evolved along a continuum shaped by life along a river. In this borderland region, where both free and enslaved residents regularly crossed the physical divide between Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, slavery and free labor shared as many similarities as differences. As the conflict between North and South intensified, regional commonality transcended political differences. Enslaved and free African Americans came to reject the legitimacy of the river border even as they were unable to escape its influence. In contrast, the majority of white residents on both sides remained firmly committed to maintaining the river border because they believed it best protected their freedom. Thus, when war broke out, Kentucky did not secede with the Confederacy; rather, the river became the seam that held the region together. By focusing on the Ohio River as an artery of commerce and movement, Salafia draws the northern and southern banks of the river into the same narrative and sheds light on constructions of labor, economy, and race on the eve of the Civil War.

Author : Leslie Townsend
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738540854

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Indiana's Ohio River Scenic Byway by Leslie Townsend Pdf

The Ohio River Scenic Byway, designated a national scenic byway in 1996, travels through quaint river towns, thriving cities, and beautiful countryside on its 302-mile journey through southern Indiana. Indiana's history and early settlement began along the Ohio River and includes prehistoric Native American sites, 400-million-year-old Devonian fossil beds, the site where Lewis and Clark first met on the Corps of Discovery voyage, and Indiana's first state capitol. Communities along the Ohio River Scenic Byway include Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Rising Sun, Vevay, Madison, Jeffersonville, Clarksville, New Albany, Corydon, Leavenworth, Cannelton, Tell City, Troy, Rockport, Newburgh, Evansville, and Mount Vernon. The byway celebrates the scenic, recreational, and historic in its architecture, winding roads, and overlooks.

Author : William Andrus Alcott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337547788

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Three Days on the Ohio River by William Andrus Alcott Pdf

Author : Rick Rhodes
Publisher : Heron Island Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : 0966586638

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The Ohio River by Rick Rhodes Pdf

The Ohio River—In American History and Voyaging on Today's Riveralso addresses the Allegheny, Monongahela, Kanawha, Muskingum, Kentucky, Green, and Wabash Rivers. More than 300 years of American History are woven into this book, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution in the West, our country's expansion into the Northwest Territories, Lewis and Clark on the Ohio River, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, the Steamboat Era, The evolution of the current lock and dam system, and rise and decline of twentieth and twenty-first century river industries, as well as the colorful local histories of 200 river towns. This work also contains 27 river locality sketches and 85 photographs. Eleven appendices list more than 60 river festivals, 59 locks and dams, hundreds of marinas and restaurants, scores of free docks, plus much more. Aspects of safely boating on the rivers, how to prudently negotiate through locks and dams, and appreciating the commercial towboat operators are also discussed.

Author : Jens Lund
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813184777

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Flatheads and Spooneys by Jens Lund Pdf

Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.