Riverboats, Rivets, & Red Bricks

The Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville reports that during the shipyard’s heyday, roughly one out of every four steamboats in America was built right here in Indiana—making the Howard family very wealthy. Today, their former mansion is a museum on the banks of the Ohio River, the perfect spot to learn about shipbuilding history and watch the Great Steamboat Race before the Kentucky Derby.