Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Greentown Fall Festival to Feature Big Band Music; What a Pumpkin; Sunflower Reaches Great Height
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Alumni Night Capped with A Win; Search Process Begins for Superintnedent; Town Requests Sewer Ban Be Lifted; Winner With "Vengeance"
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Council Begins New Year; New Restaurant Opens; School Board to Be May 4; Greentown's Space COnnection
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: New Town Fountain to Be Dedicated; $2.1 Billion, 10-Year Highway Funding Gap Revealed; Guidelines for Outdoor Warning Sirens
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Eagle Scout Project Restores adn Rededicates Cemetery; Minerature Village on Display at History Cener; Vehicle Break-Ins reported
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Minstrel To Be Given At H.S. Auditorium; "No Saloon" Rally At Peru Sunday; High School Annual Out Tuesday Morn; Much Confusion of Delinquent Taxes
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Popular Young Girl Auto Accident Victim; News From Boys In Cali. Camp; Mystery Of Who Killed The Goat; "Shocking Battle" Won By Locals
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Science Fair Awards; Council Votes to Proceed Toward Grant; School technology Report Heard
Built in 1902 in Dubuque, Iowa, she was the largest towboat ever built. Her early beginnings, however, were rocky. On her maiden voyage she collided with a showboat and only a year later had to have her engines replaced. It was difficult for...
Steamboats; Riverboats; Stern wheelers; Greene Line; Madison-Milton Bridge; Ohio River
Built in 1925, this was the second "Chris Greene" of the Greene Line. One can see the Madison-Milton Bridge in the background on the left hand side; it was built in 1928. The first "Chris Greene" was lost in the great fire at Cincinnati in...
The "Monongahela" was built in 1927 and rebuilt in 1945-1946 when she was converted from coal to an oil burner. In the late 1950s she was partially dismantled. Her remains were sold to a South American firm. She broke away from her tug during...
According to Way's Packet Directory the "Homer Smith" was build by Howard's in 1914. The "Homer Smith" ran excursions on the lower Ohio in 1915 and briefly tried the Louisville and Cincinnati trade. It became a regular excursion boat at Pittsburg...
Shown in this picture are Sylvester "Darby" Davis and his wife, Bertha Mae. The river was their home and they loved it and the boats that floated by their front door. Darby and Mae lived in a shanty boat and they were as much a part of Madison,...
The inscription on the picture says, "Sternwheel Towboat "Samuel Clark" built in Pittsburg in 1870, was used on the Ohio River until 1916 when the superstructure was removed and the hull sold to Maj. J.F. Butts, Carrollton, Ky., for use as a barge...
This scene is the Ohio River during the terrible winter of 1917-1918. You can see the "Princess" locked in the ice. That winter was exceptionally cold and the river and its tributaries froze "stem to stern". It caused much destruction along the...
