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
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
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The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long river in the United States. It begins in the Northeast and serves as the boundary between the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direct
Louisville and Portland Canal
…The Louisville and Portland Canal was a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) 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 Pittsburgh and the port of New Orleans near…
The widest point on the Ohio River is just north of downtown Louisville, where it is 1 mile (1.6 km) wide. Indiana is on the right towards the flood gates, Kentucky on the left, towards the locks. The jetty on the left is the entrance to the Louisville and Portland Canal.
Steamboat Morning Star, a Louisville and Evansville mail packet, in 1858
Built between 1847 and 1849, the Wheeling Suspension Bridge was the first bridge across the river and a crucial part of the National Road.
Cave-in-rock, view on the Ohio (circa 1832, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois): aquatint by Karl Bodmer from the book Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832–1834