Howard Steamboat Museum
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The Howard Steamboat Museum, or the Howard National Steamboat Museum, is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. Housed in the Howard Family mansion, it features items re
Side view of Howard Steamboat Museum
The museum circa 1909
Port Fulton, Indiana
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Port Fulton was a town located two miles up the river from Louisville, within present-day Jeffersonville, Indiana. At its height it stretched from the Ohio River to modern-day 10th Street, and from Cr
Howard Steamboat Museum
…1890 by Edmonds J. Howard, who inherited the family shipyard from his father James Howard. James founded the Howard Ship Yards, both in what was then Port Fulton, Indiana. It cost $100,000 to build the 22-room, 15,000 square foot, 3-floor Richardsonian Romanesque style red brick structure. Still within the museum are…
Port Fulton's Main Street, as it appears today as part of Jeffersonville.
Henry French House