The Owensboro Bridge, a.k.a. The Blue Bridge, funded through a federal grant as part of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, opened in 1940.
Smothers Park on the Ohio River in Owensboro, named for the first European settler in 1797, William Smeathers(Smothers)
The Lewis and Clark expedition wintered here on the Ohio River in 1817.
Cross the bridge and enter Indiana, huge fields in the bottom lands.
Owensboro, Kentucky, 43 miles north of our campground, the closest Home Depot and Joann's, a nice road trip through the countryside to get there.
