The World's Most Beautiful Places
The Lincoln Heritage House is a house (actually two cabins joined together) that was owned and lived in by Thomas Hardin. The naming of the house, comes from the fact that part of its construction can be attributed to Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln the future president of the United States. Thomas Lincoln owned a 200-acre farm nearby. Located at Freeman Lake in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
A view of the entrance to Hidden River Cave (previously known as Horse Cave), in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Horse Cave, Kentucky has the unusual distinction of a city named after the cave that is literally right off main street in the center of the town. The origin of the Horse Cave name is unclear, but some speculate the cave was initially used by Indians or settlers to shelter and water horses and other animals. For a time the cave became the primary source of water and hydroelectric power for the town. However with time and an increasing population that was dumping its waste nearby, the cave’s water supply became polluted, and the tourism that had been building up around the cave vanished. This led to a period of time when the cave lay empty and neglected. But ultimately, after the sources of pollution were eliminated the cave recovered.
Today, the now renamed Hidden River Cave is a thriving tourist attraction along with the other caves (Mammoth Cave being the most well known) in the area. It also hosts the American Cave & Karst Center, a museum and education center about caves operated by the American Cave Conservation Association.
A gravel barge is seen in late evening traveling up the Ohio River along the waterfront of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Across the way are Clarksville and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Barges carrying gravel, stone aggregate, coal, and other commodities are a common sight along the river at nearly all times of the day and night. In many places such as Louisville, and Cincinnati they have to navigate not only multiple bridges where interstate highways cross, but also dam locks. In fact just before this picture was taken the barge shown passed through the McAlpine Lock and Dam system at the Falls of the Ohio.