Bryant's Showboat and the Valley Belle sternwheeler at the Gratz, Kentucky, wharf
This file appears in: Owen County, Kentucky
A 1920 image of the Bryant's Showboat and the Valley Belle sternwheeler at the Gratz, Kentucky, wharf on the Kentucky River. This is in Owen County, which is named for a War of 1812 veteran. Courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Owen County, Kentucky
Owen County, Kentucky
Historical Marker #831 commemorates Owen County for being named after a casualty of the Battle of Tippecanoe, a fight that some consider to be the unofficial beginning of the War of 1812.
Born in Virginia in 1769, Colonel Abraham Owen moved to…