15 river ports where steamboat commerce froze 1850s America in brick and cobblestone
Morning fog lifts from the Ohio River as Madison, Indiana awakens to another unhurried day. Federal-style mansions climb terraced streets where steamboat captains once counted cotton bales. The town preserves 133 blocks of 19th-century architecture not through deliberate effort, but because commerce sailed away when railroads arrived. Fifteen river ports across America tell this same … Lire plus









