Color photo image of the steamboat on the Ohio River, Kentucky hills in background. The Henry M Stanley was built in 1890 at the Flesher Yard in Murraysville, WV. She ran the Cincinnati-Charleston trade. In 1907 she sank and as preparations were under way to raise her she burned.
Colorized image of the bridge and the Scioto River with men fishing in a boat. This was the fifth (5th) bridge built over the Scioto River. It was a wooden floor pier bridge to replace the suspension bridge that fell in 1884 killing two children. This bridge washed out in the flood of 1913 with no fatalities.
