My favorite place for off-road biking is the Delaware Canal towpath from New Hope to Upper Black Eddy, then cross the Delaware River to Frenchtown. There I head down river on a rail trail and Raritan ...
Steamboats and the St. Joseph region were connected through the travel of goods and people in the late 1800s, although the journey down the old muddy was rather dangerous. St. Joseph was a point that ...
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - The Ohio River hasn’t always been the recreational destination it is today. Since the early 1800’s, it has served as one of the most profitable river highways in the world, ...
LAWRENCE — The Merrimack River will have a parade of steamboats tooting their whistles and cruising the waters this weekend as two nonprofit organizations join forces for a steamboat regatta. The ...
CINCINNATI — A new, but not-so-new event is coming to the riverbanks of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky in 2025. America's River Roots — a concept that will feel very familiar to many Tri-Staters — ...
During the 19th century, hundreds of steamboats traversed America’s waterways, carrying passengers faster and more luxuriously than ever before. “The steamboat was the first American invention of ...
“The Steamboat — How it Progresses.” The Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman reported on Feb. 17, 1866: “Captain Gates, who has been in town for a few days, tells us that the boat at the mouth of the river is ...