Riverside Hotel

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This file appears in: Captain John W. Cannon
Riverside Hotel

Hotels like the Riverside in Louisville catered to luxury steamboat travelers that visited Ohio and Mississippi River towns and cities. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Captain John W. Cannon

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1756 in Hawesville (Hancock County) cites the birthplace of noted steamboat captain and builder John W. Cannon. Cannon captained steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers during much of the nineteenth century and became…