Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ... and Heritage Festival, America's River Roots will have 12 steamboats take part in the festival to celebrate Cincinnati, which at one point was the steamboat capital ...

though the tradition is still celebrated today in the annual Great Steamboat Race on the Ohio River, part of the festivities surrounding the Kentucky Derby. The 14-mile race has been held nearly ...

A source told The Enquirer the America's River Roots festival next year will feature riverboat cruises – just like Tall Stacks once did.

America's River Roots festival to bring steamboats, national music acts, more to Ohio River The festival will have plenty of live music, with Bryce Dessner of rock band The National curating ...

The steamboat changed life along the Ohio River dramatically. And for many who love River life, these were the glory days. Nicholas Roosevelt built the very first steam powered boat traveling on ...

Steamboats and barges getting stuck in jagged ice floes, or even sinking. The winter of 1917-1918 was one of the worst on record when the Ohio River froze along its entire length. The ice gorge ...

At about 11 p.m. on a Tuesday in 1936, Gladys toppled from the top deck of the Idlewild into the Ohio River. One hundred people on the steamboat witnessed her fall, and a searchlight glowed on her ...

"Steamboats were built here and then steamed down the Ohio, up the Mississippi, up the Missouri River and opened the west to immigrants." Pittsburgh was a manufacturing hub that supplied the ...

Cincinnati is located on the Ohio River and steamboats are part of the city's history. In 1826, Cincinnati had established itself as a steamboat center, with 143 steamboats operating on the Ohio ...