February 1832 brought bitterly cold weather to Central Pennsylvania. As Joseph Bailey, a Jersey Shore man, learned to his dismay, the Susquehanna River’s West Branch ran thick with ice. Little did ...

A new exhibit at Heritage Village Museum in Sharonville navigates lessons of history, math, science and literature, and offers a glimpse of how Cincinnati was settled in the 1800s. The museum, inside ...

ROCKPORT, Ind. – The southwestern Indiana county where Abraham Lincoln spent most of his youth will celebrate his life next year by recreating Lincoln’s 1828 flatboat journey down the Mississippi ...

In 1828 Abraham Lincoln and friend, Allen Gentry, piloted a flatboat loaded with meat, corn and flour down the Ohio River from Spencer County, Ind., to New Orleans, La. Then 50 years ago a group of ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – “The Abraham” flatboat is unveiled at the Tell City Schweizer Fest. A ribbon cutting was held Friday morning. People at Friday’s celebration were able to meet with the boat’s ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – A ribbon cutting was held at the Tell City Schweizer Fest on Friday for “The Abraham” flatboat. People at the celebration were able to meet with the boat’s builder and owner.

Aboard his frontier-style flatboat, Ron Drake is retracing the path of a young Abraham Lincoln. In a way, though, the legacy of an older, wiser Lincoln is following Drake. It doesn’t just emerge each ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — After nearly a full year closed for renovations, The Netherland Inn and Boatyard are set to reopen later this month. The Inn, located on the parcel that made up the original ...

For history buffs, cruising onboard luxurious motor yachts to exotic islands has nothing tempting to offer. But swapping that for a wooden boat that mimics those that sailed down the Mississippi in ...

Rockport - Spencer County plans to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's life next year by recreating his 1828 flatboat journey down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809, ...