The World's Most Beautiful Places
Ruins of the Front Street Pumping Station, Cincinnati’s first publically-owned water utility system. The station, located on the banks of the Ohio River operated from 1865-1907. It consisted of two steam pumps, three and a half miles of iron pipe, and 19 miles of wooden pipe. Daily it provided over one million gallons of water.
A memorial plaque dedicated to Harry Clay Egbert, a Colonel in the United States Army, at the site of Fort Thomas (Tower Park), in Kentucky. During his military service, he fought in the American Civil War, Spanish–American War, and the Philippine–American War. Notable battles include the Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of El Caney, and the Battle of Manila, where he died leading a charge against Filipino forces in Malinta. Fort Egbert, near Eagle River, Alaska, which operated from 1899, until 1925, was named in his honor by U.S. President William McKinley.
A view of Louisville, Kentucky’s historic waterworks shortly after sunset. The water tower was built in 1860’s after the city gained a reputation as the “graveyard of the west”, for its polluted, and diseased (Cholera and Typhoid) water supply. The water tower, like Philadelphia’s Fairmount Water Works, was designed with a Roman temple-like exterior to mask the industrial pumping station within the building. The building resides along the banks of the Ohio River on the edge of downtown Louisville. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.