Browse Items (8 total)

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  History of the Backwoods, or, the Region of the Ohio, 1843

  Title page of the History of the Ohio Rivery Valley from early accounts. Includes many events, notices of prominent pioneers, sketches of early settlements, etc.

  Tags Colonization; indian wars; Indigenous Peoples; map; Native Americans; Ohio River Valley; pamphlets; Pontiac's conspiracy
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  Letter from Lemuel Wells to Charles Wells, 24 November 1827

  Wells writes about trading along the Ohio River, the recent sale of one of his enslaved women named Hannah for $200, current prices in Natchez and Nashville for apples, cider, flour, and other goods. Notes his location as “150 miles below the Falls” and promises to write again when he reaches Natchez.
  

  Tags dry goods; Enslaved people; enslavement; falls of the ohio; fruit; Letters; merchant; Nashville; Natchez; Ohio River; trading; Women
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  Letter from Valentine Meriwether to his father at the Falls of the Ohio, 23 August 1787

  In this letter to his father, Meriwether discusses settling estate debts, stating that is they are not settled satisfactorily, the family may have to leave the state (Virginia). He tells of moving the people he enslaved from the kitchen into their own cabin, states the value of enslaved people will go down and "will not sell for more than a third of what they're worth." States he "never wanted to go to Kentuck [sic] till now but I am sure I can't stay here."

  Tags enslavement; estate; falls of the ohio; Letters; Virginia
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  Map of the Falls of the Ohio, 1824

  Map of the Falls of the Ohio, from actual survey, adapted to the low water of 1819. Shows both Baker's route for a canal on the Kentucky side of the river and Flint's route for a canal on the Indiana side.

  Tags Canal; falls of the ohio; Indiana; Kentucky; map; Ohio River; river
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  View of the bridge arch and the Ohio River at North 2nd (Second) Street and River Road, 1959.

  View of the bridge arch and the Ohio River at North 2nd (Second) Street and River Road. A number of cars a waiting at a stoplight.
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  View of the Ohio River, 1959

  Eastern view of the south side of the Ohio River looking toward the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge [Second Street Bridge].
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  View of the Ohio River, May 1959

  North northeast view of Louisville from the top floor of the Columbia Building at the northwest corner of North 4th (Fourth) Street and West Main Street. The Ohio River and George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge [Second Street Bridge] right frame.
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  Boat Landing on the Ohio River

  East view of the boat landing and the Coast Guard station at West River Road and North 6th (Sixth) Street.