The World's Most Beautiful Places
A view of the John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln Bridges crossing the Ohio River from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Louisville, Kentucky. Both bridges support I-65, the Interstate between Chicago, Illinois and Nashville, Tennessee.
Illinois Iron Furnace in Shawnee National Forest, near Rosiclare, Illinois. Made of brick and stone, the furnace was constructed between 1837-1839. The iron ingots produced at the furnace were shipped to Elizabethtown, Illinois and traded up and down the Ohio River. The furnance ceased operations in 1869, due to supply and labor shortages related to the American Civil War.
Cumberland Falls State Park in rural southeast Kentucky near the town of Corbin. Cumberland Falls is part of the Cumberland River drainage, a 688-mile-long river system Kentucky that begins in the Appalachian Mountains, and flows into the Ohio River at its meeting point with the Tennessee River. Its major tributaries include the Obey, Caney Fork, Stones, and Red Rivers.
