Steam-powered Gunboat

ID: 1698
This file appears in: Historic Riverfront (Paducah)

This image shows a steam-powered gunboat the Paducah riverfront during the Civil War. Often these were merely converted steamboats. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Historic Riverfront (Paducah)

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1065 in Paducah remembers the importance of the waterfront to this river city where the Tennessee River flows into the Ohio River. River towns are often established due to…