Description: Reverse reads: "Class - Industry; Location - Cincinnati; Credit - Courtesy of Homer Jensen" Caption on a similar photograph reads: "Unloading coal barges, Cincinnati river front. From "They Built a City." Copyright released for this foto by the Cincinnati Post." The book referred to here is entitled "They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati", written by the Cincinnati Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in Ohio and published by the Cincinnati Post in 1938. From this work, "The use of towboats for handling river coal began in the Cincinnati area in January, 1907 when the Sprague took 60 coal boats and barges, carrying a load of 70 thousand tons, from Louisville to New Orleans. From this experiment came a vast river trade in coal. At Cincinnati this coal commerce has gone steadily upward; on several occasions the annual receipts have exceeded three million tons. In 1937 the city received 2, 606, 044 tons." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_015_1
Subjects: Coal--Transportation--Ohio; Barges; Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Unloading coal barges, Cincinnati river front. From "They Built a City." Copyright released for this foto by the Cincinnati Post." The book referred to here is entitled "They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati", written by the Cincinnati Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in Ohio and published by the Cincinnati Post in 1938. From this work, "The use of towboats for handling river coal began in the Cincinnati area in January, 1907 when the Sprague took 60 coal boats and barges, carrying a load of 70 thousand tons, from Louisville to New Orleans. From this experiment came a vast river trade in coal. At Cincinnati this coal commerce has gone steadily upward; on several occasions the annual receipts have exceeded three million tons. In 1937 the city received 2,606,044 tons." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F11_008_1
Subjects: Coal--Transportation--Ohio; Barges; Ohio River; Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: First surveyed in 1849, Powhatan Point was laid out by Franklin Knox. The "point" is the confluence of Captina Creek and the Ohio River. The small but thriving river and farming community served York Township and the rich Captina Valley as a shipping center for its first 75 years. Given impetus by the construction of the Powhatan Enterprise Flouring Mill and Woolen Factory in 1850, local businesses shipped grain, fruit, lumber, cheese, whiskey, livestock, wool, and tobacco to northern and southern ports. There were three boat landings: Boger's, Hornbrook's and Dorsey's, each equipped with an incline car track from the warehouses to the river's edge. With the opening of North American Coal Corporation's Powhatan No. 1 Mine in 1922, the village became a mining community that continued to rely on the river. A disastrous mine fire took the lives of 66 men on July 5, 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06802
Subjects: Ohio River; Coal mines and mining--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Powhatan Point (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: First surveyed in 1849, Powhatan Point was laid out by Franklin Knox. The "point" is the confluence of Captina Creek and the Ohio River. The small but thriving river and farming community served York Township and the rich Captina Valley as a shipping center for its first 75 years. Given impetus by the construction of the Powhatan Enterprise Flouring Mill and Woolen Factory in 1850, local businesses shipped grain, fruit, lumber, cheese, whiskey, livestock, wool, and tobacco to northern and southern ports. There were three boat landings: Boger's, Hornbrook's and Dorsey's, each equipped with an incline car track from the warehouses to the river's edge. With the opening of North American Coal Corporation's Powhatan No. 1 Mine in 1922, the village became a mining community that continued to rely on the river. A disastrous mine fire took the lives of 66 men on July 5, 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06803
Subjects: Ohio River; Coal mines and mining--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Powhatan Point (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The stern-wheel towboat W.P. Snyder Jr pushing a barge. Carnegie Steel commissioned the boat to be used for transporting much needed coal. When the boat eventually wore out it's usefulness to it's owners it became a candidate to be taken out of commission and dismantled. It was saved from this fate so that it could be kept as an important piece of history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06899
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Coal; Boats
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The stern-wheel towboat W.P. Snyder Jr on the river. Carnegie Steel commissioned the boat to be used for transporting much needed coal. When the boat eventually wore out it's usefulness to it's owners it became a candidate to be taken out of commission and dismantled. It was saved from this fate so that it could be kept as an important piece of history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06900
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Coal; Boats
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The W.P. Snyder Jr on the river. Carnegie Steel commissioned the boat to be used for transporting much needed coal. When the boat eventually wore out it's usefulness to it's owners it became a candidate to be taken out of commission and dismantled. It was saved from this fate so that it could be kept as an important piece of history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06901
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Coal; Boats
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Panoramic photograph of the C&O bridge over the Ohio River at Sciotoville under construction. The C&O Company was originally established in the mid 1800s when a number of companies came together in Virginia. After it had been established as a company transporting coal across the country it managed to grow in Ohio and began exporting all its coal into the state so that Ohio could use it for its booming industries. Through the years the company continued to expand and take in other companies as part of the larger system. This would lead to the company that it's known as still, CSX. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06719
Subjects: Railroads--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio River; Coal; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development