Category: Transportation

‘My name is Mike Fink!’ was the curt reply

He was the most famous of the keelboatmen, who plied the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers for two decades until displaced by steamboats.

Excerpt from 1949 letter by Capt. Tom Greene, Greene Line Steamers owner, to his friend Dan Heekin, a Cincinnati industrialist & river buff.

They are: the Horton Mill Bridge, the Swann Covered Bridge (also called the Joy Covered Bridge or Swann-Joy Covered Bridge), & Easley Bridge.

The Deposit ferry was kept in use until about 1890, when the county established a free ferry at Guntersville.

There are only four ferries left along the Ohio River. The Sisterville Ferry is the only one along the stretch that shares its border with WV.

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