Home Graveyard of the Ohio now a favorite tourist destination Steamboat at Parkersburg, c. 1925

Steamboat at Parkersburg, c. 1925

1910 topo map showing Graveyard of the Ohio below Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Waterfront scene showing Parkersburg wharf boat and Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co. boat at Parkersburg, West Virginia, circa 1925. Courtesy University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

A kayaker plies the gentle Ohio River near Parkersburg, West Virginia, once the site of the infamous Graveyard of the Ohio.

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