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 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.
The Story Inn has a long history dating back to 1882. It lies at the center of the town of Story, Indiana, which was founded by farmers trying make a living from the marginal soils of the hilly area that is Brown County, Indiana. The town and the inn went through various phases of growth and decline, and the surrounding countryside saw much of its original farming population leave and the land they left behind turned into Indiana’s largest state park.