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History. USS Phenakite (PYc-25) was built 1902 as the yacht Celt by Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, Delaware, for J. Rogers Maxwell, a railroad executive. [2][3] It was launched on April 12, 1902. Shortly after the United States' entry into the First World War, it was acquired by the US Navy on July 3, 1917. [2][3] The ship was placed in service ...
U. United States and America steamboat disaster. Categories: Shipwrecks in rivers. Shipwrecks of the United States. Ohio River.
The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United ...
37°51′0″N 87°56′10″W / 37.85000°N 87.93611°W / 37.85000; -87.93611 (Ashworth Archaeological Site (12 Po 7)) Posey. Mississippian: Caborn-Welborn. 4. Bono Archaeological Site (12 Lr 194) [7] Bono Township: on a bluff above the White River, ½ mile west of the riverbank and 1 mile north of Bono.
Yankeetown site. The Yankeetown site (12W1 [2]: 12 ) is a substantial archaeological site along the Ohio River in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. Inhabited during the prehistoric Woodland period, the site has yielded important information about Woodland-era peoples in the region, but it has been damaged by substantial erosion.
The United States and America steamboat disaster was a collision between two US Mail Line Company ships on the Ohio River in 1868. [1] Both ships were sunk and about seventy-four people died. The death toll makes this accident one of the worst Ohio River maritime disasters of all time. On the night of 4 December 1868, sister ships owned by the ...
Falls of the Ohio State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is located on the banks of the Ohio River at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. The park is part of the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area. The exposed fossil beds of the Jeffersonville Limestone dated from the Devonian period ...
Wyandotte Caves. The Wyandotte Caves is a pair of limestone caves located on the Ohio River in Harrison–Crawford State Forest in Crawford County, Indiana, 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Leavenworth and 12 miles (19 km) from Corydon. Wyandotte Caves were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1972, and they are now part of O'Bannon Woods State ...