Lewisport
This file appears in: Union Steamboat Captured/Site of Front Street
This late-nineteenth century photograph shows a safe being delivered to the Bank of Lewisport. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Union Steamboat Captured/Site of Front Street
Union Steamboat Captured/Site of Front Street
Historical Marker # 1935 in Lewisport (Hancock County) commemorates the December 1864 capture of a Union mail packet steamboat at this Ohio River town by Confederate guerrillas.
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