The Tell City was built in 1889 to carry passengers and freight on the Ohio River. On April 6, 1917, she sank after an accident in Little Hocking, Ohio. The Pilothouse was removed from the wreck and used as a summer home for a while. It is now the oldest surviving Pilothouse of it's kind.

This is a picture of the Steam Towboat W.P. Snyder, Jr. It is one of the last remaining Mark Twain Era steam towboats used on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers system during the past century.

Being at the Ohio River Museum, you may take tours of this towboat when it is open. We missed the last tour of the day by 20 minutes when we visited. If you have any internal photos of the boat that you'd like to share, please feel free to submit them.

This is a restored canal boat used to transport goods on the once booming Ohio/Erie Canal, portions of which are also featured on this website.

The Captain Tom R. Greene Memorial Navigation Light. Tom Greene was president of Greene Line Steamers, now The Delta Queen Steamboat Company. He purchased the Delta Queen steamboat that ran on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

The bridge that connects Ohio and West Virginia, crossing the Ohio River.

Boiler Point, where a large boiler now underground once stood in 1814. When it was not paid for after delivery, it became a "hang out" for the locals.

This historic plaque is dedicated to Marquess de la Fayette, who was the first person to tour the United States back in 1824. His tour lasted 1½ years.

A plaque for the Historic Ohio Land Company. This plaque lists all of the original deed holders of Marietta. This was the first settlement beyond the original 13 colonies (states).

This old grinding stone is dedicated to the first white woman settler, Mary Gardner Owen, who settled in Marietta with her family in 1788.

This is the Southern Boundary Picketed Point during the four years of the Indian War.

This plaque is in rememberance of the children of the Revolutionary War, and also first settlers of Marietta.

Just beyond this sign was a public landing where the roadway extended down to the Ohio River. For over 100 years, this was the place where goods were exchanged.

An early Pioneer Map of Marietta circa 1792. It shows the original contents of the town on this large plaque.

This is Muskingum Park. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and W.H. Taft spoke here in 1912. In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the "Start Westward" monument pictured above. It was rededicated in 1988.