Robert E. Lee
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Cannon's most famous steamboat was named for the Confederate general pictured here, Robert E. Lee. The steamboat was built in 1866, just one year after Lee's surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox and the end of the Civil War. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
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Captain John W. Cannon
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…