It’s about a very special time in the history of Terre Haute, the era of the steamboat. In the days before the Civil War, navigable rivers were the main arteries of traffic. When the Wabash ...

Long before the railroad stitched Hartford to New York City, the Connecticut River served as the city’s lifeline to the ...

"In the late 1800s, early 1900s ... who observed that the bubbling sounded like a churning steamboat, giving the area its name. “From one spring the boiling water is ejected a foot or more ...

They reflected the architectural influence of Connecticut and the old South, the wave of classic, pillared Greek Revival that swept all U.S. architecture in the middle 1800s. But Cincinnati’s ...

It features attractions that depict significant events and modes of travel from the 1800s, such as the Chicago Fire of 1871, horse-drawn trolleys, sternwheel steamboats, and the Lewis and Clark ...

According to city officials, French trappers in the 1800s heard a chugging sound coming from a mineral spring that reminded them of a steamboat’s engine. The office at the entrance to the ...

This week’s Historical Treasure isn’t about a person, place or thing. It’s about a very special time in the history of Terre Haute, the era of the steamboat.