Nicholas Roosevelt built the very first steam powered boat traveling on the Ohio River. It was launched in the fall of 1811. It took just a few years for that first trip to be changed into a boom ...

The federal designation marks a victory for advocates seeking to turn the river's identity away from an industrial corridor ...

There would be no Cincinnati without the Ohio River. Before railroads and automobiles, cities were built near bodies of water. The river was life. It was a source of water for people, animals and ...

The Ohio River Way is now a National Water Trail, ... The route showcases the region’s history, including the Underground Railroad and river commerce on steamboats.

It was 1925 when the Ohio River Co. first began transporting cargo on the Ohio. The company started out by chartering one ...

A passenger cruise boat passed Huntington Tuesday morning. As usual, it didn’t stop here. It was in Maysville, Kentucky, on ...

The winter of 1917-1918 was one of the worst on record when the Ohio River froze along its entire length. The ice gorge crushed and sank the Princess, one of the passenger steamboats to Coney Island.

The Ohio River Way, stretching more than 300 miles from Ashland to West Point, earned a national water trail designation from the U.S. Department of the Interior in June — connecting Appalachia ...

The festival will be "centered on the Ohio River." The festival is intended to kick off the 250th birthday of the United States, which happens in 2026. CINCINNATI — Cincinnati City Council's ...