Proceeding on.
The Howard Steamboat Museum is fascinating in a thousand different ways. The history of the family, the family home, the artifacts in the museum collection, the steamboat photographs, and the curators and my personal guide ( I arrived early) made a memorable impression. The museum receives my highest “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval. Time well spent.
Most of the town of Jeffersonville is protected by a flood wall. Unlike Pt Pleasant and Ironton, some Jeffersonville homes and businesses, including the Howard Steamboat Museum, are between the wall and the river. I was told the Howard home was out of reach of most floods. Only the Flood of 1937 entered the living quarters of the home to a height of 10 feet
Last stop – Cairo. Photos of the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio and the sculpture “Proceeding on” referring to the Lewis and Clark expedition will be loaded later. I was the only person in the park. Standing at water level was an emotive moment thinking about the people who had passed this point. In town, the Custom House Museum was open according to its sign, but locked.