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Rising Sun is a small city on the banks of the Ohio River, in Ohio County, Indiana. The town was originally incorporated in 1816, and was a stopping point on the Ohio River for flatboats coming from Cincinnati and other points along the river. It is located across the river from Rabbit Hash, Kentucky.
A view of the Kentucky State Seal on the gate at the governor’s mansion, in Frankfort, next to the state capitol building. The state seal represents the coming together of the frontiersman, the every day Kentuckian, with the statesman who serves the state of Kentucky and helps guide it into the future. The state’s motto is one that is very familiar to many in the United States “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.” It was derived at the time however from a popular 1768 tune entitled the “Liberty Song,” by John Dickinson.
The 14th Street Railroad Bridge at Sunset, crossing the Ohio River from Clarksville, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky. 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.