Events Search and Views Navigation
October 2018
“History of Navigation on the Ohio River”
FREE
Join us for a talk on the "History of Navigation on the Ohio River" by Chuck Parrish, retired Historian with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Free and open to all. Sponsored by the Riverside Garden Club. Tuesday, October 9th at 6:30 PM.
Find out more »September 2019
“Work Along the Ohio: African American Labor in the Ohio River Valley”
FREE
Join us for a presentation by Dr. David Ross Anderson of the University of Louisville entitled: "Work Along the River Jordan: African American River Labor in the Ohio River Valley, and the Development of Black America" on Sunday, September 15 @ 2:00 PM. This free presentation will examine the economic and social importance of African American river workers along the Ohio River in the nineteenth century. Enslaved and free workers were vital to a growing western economy, but also connected…
Find out more »
