The World's Most Beautiful Places
The Battle of Corydon, the only Civil War battle in Indiana, occurred on July 9, 1863. The battle included the Union’s Harrison County Home Guard, and 2,400 confederate cavalry commanded by General John Hunt Morgan (known as Morgan’s Raiders). Morgan ultimately went on to win the battle and continue a rampage through Indiana, Ohio and up into Pennsylvania.
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 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.