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A view of the Ohio River at sunrise, with Jeffersonville and Clarksville, Indiana on the north shore, and Louisville, Kentucky on the south shore.

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A view of the 14th Street Railroad Bridge, the McAlpine Locks and Dam, and the Falls of the Ohio, on the Ohio River. As seen with Clarksville, Indiana, with downtown Louisville, Kentucky seen in the distance.

The Fourteenth Street Bridge, also known as the Ohio Falls Bridge, was completed in 1870, by the Louisville Bridge Company. It was originally operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, but is currently owned by the Louisville and Indiana Railroad. The drawbridge portion on the south side of the river, which allows barges to pass through the McAlpine Locks and Dam, was built in 1918, and operates as a vertical-lift span. The McAlpine Locks and Dam, were built to allow ships to navigate past the Falls of the Ohio, a series of rapids in the Ohio River that pose a serious obstacle to boat traffic in this section of the river.

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A replica of a traditional Native American wattle and daub house from the Southeastern United States near Cumberland Gap National Park, on the border of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

The hut consists of a thatched roof hut, supported with a wooden posts in a circular configuration. The walls of the hut employ the wattle and daub construction technique. A woven lattice of wooden strips called “wattle” is combined with a plastering technique known as “daub” that is applied to the wooden lattice and includes a combination of wet soil, clay, sand, straw and animal dung. Wattle and daub is a construction technique that dates back more than 6,000 years, can be found in many places throughout the world, and remains in use today in different regions.

This particular hut has a single doorway with no windows, but an up roof that allows the smoke and heat from cooking fires to escape.

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