Warsaw, Kentucky

The Hattie Brown in Cincinnati. She usually ran between
Warsaw, Carrollton and Madison

This unusual boat is rumored to have contained some sort of musical instrument, as a part of its structure. It's that lump in the bow. If you have more details, please contact me. This scene is near the Warsaw ferry landing.

Wharf Boat at Warsaw for the Fannie Dugan. She entered the Warsaw-Carrollton-Madison trade, and her wharf boat was brought to Warsaw from Madison. Built 1872, 165 feet long, 28 feet wide.

The Ivory Wood #4, a.k.a. The Glass Boat
...because it sold glassware up and down the river.

left, Warsaw, Kentucky, 1968
right, Overhead View of Warsaw Ferry, c. 1955

left, Warsaw Ferry Boat, circa 1916
right, Ferry Boat to Indiana, Warsaw, 1949

David Webb tells me: "Warsaw Ferry 1949. The owners were Allen Young and Jimmy Hart. In this picture, a sixteen year old James Everett Webb is the deck hand. Jimmy Hart is sitting in the car and Allen Young is in the pilothouse. In that period of time the ferry operated 7 days a week 24 hours a day. Allen and James worked together a 24 hour shift on and then 24 hours off. The other crew was pilot Matt Webb who was James father and a deckhand who name cannot be remembered other than he became the pilot on the Rising Sun ferry in later years. The crew members would take turns sleeping while one watched the Indiana side for cars."

Darrell Maines calls me one night, and says, "You're not going to believe what I just found." It seems he was looking at this web page and found the excerpt below about the Todd man buying the ferry and moving. And just that afternoon had come across a picture of a man on a ferry boat named the Kentucky Home, and it looks for all the world like a man moving his belongings. Is this a case of a 100 year old picture finally catching up with a 100 year old paragraph explaining it? We'll never know, but I like to think so.

"Graham & Mylor sold their ferryboat and privileges at this place Tuesday, to Wm. L. Todd, of Florence, Indiana, for $4,000. This property consists of the gasoline ferryboat Kentucky Home, skiffs, ferry boats, landings, etc. Mr. Todd speaks of moving to Warsaw as soon as he can rent a suitable house." from the Warsaw Independent, August 19, 1905