Portland Canal in Winter
This file appears in: Grave of Steamboat Captain (Mary M. Miller)
This historic photograph shows a steamboat in the ice at the canal at Portland. Mary and George Miller lived in Portland for many years. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Grave of Steamboat Captain (Mary M. Miller)
Grave of Steamboat Captain (Mary M. Miller)
Historical Marker #1778 in Louisville remembers the final resting place of pioneering female steamboat captain Mary Millicent Miller, who received her license as a captain in 1884.
The nineteenth…