The Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area is a national, bi-state area on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States, administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Enginee
Fossil formations at the shores of the Ohio River in Clarksville
The Falls, circa 1929
Large rugose coral (above hammer) in the Devonian Jeffersonville limestone at the Falls of the Ohio, near Louisville, Kentucky
The Louisville and Portland Canal was a 1.9-mile 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 Pi
Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area
…Still, the falls provided a singular, dramatic, and daunting obstacle to navigation on this important inland waterway. The first locks on the river, the Louisville and Portland Canal completed in 1830, were built within a bypass canal constructed to provide year-round navigation of the river. The falls were later largely covered by…
The modern canal after many enlargements
The route of the Louisville and Portland Canal in the 1850s
Union troops arrive at Louisville in 1862.
The 1863 home of Enoch Lockhart, the first canal superintendent, commanding a direct view of the works