Index For
The Green River of Kentucky
By Helen Bartter Crocker
Published by: The University Press of Kentucky, 1976
Index compiled by Thomas Jansing
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Notes
 All entries refer to the Green River of Kentucky unless otherwise stated
The Green River’s major tributary, the Barren River, is often thought of as an extension of the Green.
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is said to be the Green River’s largest city, even though it is on the Barren
River. From the beginning of river improvements in the 1830s Bowling Green was considered to be the
head of navigation for the Green River. Generally, when speaking of the Green River one is also
speaking of the Barren River.
Str EVANSVILLE (Way 1921?). The author says on page 34 that EVANSVILLE sank in 1880, but there
is some discrepancy here. Later, on page 36, she says: “When the old EVANSVILLE (1921) sank in
1880, Captain Robinson went to Cincinnati to oversee the building of a luxury steamer, the new 194-ton
EVANSVILLE (1922).” Nowhere in Way’s Packet Directory, or any other reference, can I find a steamer
named EVANSVILLE which sank in 1880. According to Way, the old EVANSVILLE (1921) was sold in
1880 and eventually ended up as a rafter on the Upper Mississippi (T0770). The Lytle-Holdcamper List
goes only to 1868, so only one steamer named EVANSVILLE built in 1854 is listed, Way’s number
(1920).
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A
Aberdeen Mining Company: 53
aboriginal people: 2
acid water: 84
agricultural shipping: 54
Airdrie KY: 35, 39
Airdrie coal mines: 41
Alcoa Aluminum Company: 75
aluminum industry: 72
Ankerman, George: 56
Appalachian Mountains: 4
asphalt: deposits 11, 55, 68, 72, 82
Atomic Energy Commission: 78
ATTABOY, M/V tb: p76H
Audubon, John James: 6
B
Bardstown KY: 3
Barren County KY: 10
Barren league: See Barren River Valley Development League
Barren River: x, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 30, 63, 67, 71, 74, 78, 80, 82
Barren River Area Development District (BRADD): 84
Barren River Reservoir: 81
Barren River Valley Development League (aka Barren league): 81, 82
Barrens, The: 9, 10
Bear Creek: 9, 49, 68
beaver complex: 83
Beck, Sally: 67, 69, 86
BELLE OF LOUISVILLE (0524-A): 81
Berry, Mr.: 33
Big Falls: 3
Bluegrass: settlements 3, 4, political influence 11
Board of Internal Improvements, KY: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 30
body-shipping case: 64
BOWLING GREEN (0698): 32, poem 32, 47
BOWLING GREEN (0699): 47, 69, p76C
Bowling Green Democrat: 32, 60
Bowling Green-Evansville trade: 23
Bowling Green KY: xi, 4, 6, 12, 14, 15, 16, head of GrenR navigation 17, str trade 18, 22, 25, 26,
30, 35, 36, 37, 43, 46, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 64, 67, 70, 71, 76, 80, 81, 82, 84
bridges, RR: 36, 42
Brown Jr., William, GBnav: 31
Brownsville KY: 49, 51
Brush Creek: 3
Buckner, Gen. Simon Bolivar, CSA: 26
Buell, Gen. Don Carlos, USA: 35, 39, 40, pamphlet Memorial of D.C. Buell... 40, 41, 42, 44, 86
Burke City KY: 57
Butler County KY: 53, 65, 74, 82
C
Calhoun Constitution: 47, 59
Calhoun KY: 3, 16, 35, 36, 48, 50, 55, 59, 64,66, 67, 79
Campbellsville KY: 11
3
canal, GrenR-CumbR: 18
canalization: 16
Casey County KY: 12
Casey Creek: 8
Central City hearing, 1952: 86
Central City KY: 74, 76
CHAPERON (0937): 50, 64, 69, p76G
Chapman, Sen. Virgil M.: 76
characteristics, GrenR: 7
Cherokees: 2
Chesapeake & Ohio RR: 42
Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern RR: 37
cholera epidemic: 18, 19
Cincinnati OH: 23, 36
CITY OF CLARKSVILLE (1067): 47
Civil War: x, 26, GrenR Lock No.3, BarenR Lock No.1, end of war 27, 41
Clay, Henry: 22
Clements, Sen. Earle: 76
CLERMONT (of Robert Fulton): 15
coal: 9, Western Coal Fields 9/10/72, 11, 15, 35, 38, 53, 54, 68, 72, 73, transport by
barge/RR/truck 73, 78, 82, acid water 84, 1970 energy crisis 85
Coin, Oren: 77
COL. G.L. GILLESPIE (T0466): 50
COLUMBIA, showboat: 66
commerce on GrenR: 1890 46, comparison 1898 & 1906 49, decline of 67-68/72,
lower river barging 82
Commercial Hotel: 64
concrete: 72
Coombs, Capt., first of that name: 23
coonjine: 51
Cooper, Sen. John Sherman: 76, 81
corn-stick pan: 56
COTTON BLOSSOM, showboat: 66
counties on GrenR: pISBC, 4
course: 1
CRESCENT CITY: (1371): 61, 64, p76H
CROWN POINT (1377?): 47
Cumberland Gap: 4
Cumberland Mountains: 4
Cumberland Presbyterian Church: 59
Cumberland River: 18, 19, 46
Cumberland Trace: 4
D
Daviess County KY: 11
Danville KY: 6
deckhands: 51, 62
Delaware KY: 64
depression of 1837: 19
depth: 7-8
diesel-powered boats: 72
Dixon County KY: 6
DOC BART’S FUN BOAT, showboat: 66
Dolly, Capt.: 33
double-ender: 57
4
drainage area: pISFC/1/4/8, counties in pISBC
Drake’s Creek: 12
Durrenberger, Capt.: 33
E
East Lynne, showboat show: 65
Edmonson County KY: 35, 55
Elizabethtown & Paducah RR: 37, 38
Elizabethtown KY: 3, 4
Elkton KY: 25
Ellis, Courtney: 69
EMERALD (T0731): 50
environmentalists: 83, water-pollution restrictions 84
Environmental Protection Agency: 84
EVANSVILLE (1921/T0770): 32, 34, sank 1880? (See notes) 34, 36, 64, 65
EVANSVILLE (1922): 36, 47, 61?
EVANSVILLE (1923): 54?, 69, wildcat whistle 69, 70, p76B
Evansville & Bowling Green Packet Company: 61
Evansville & Bowling Green Steam Packet Company: 47
Evansville Courier: 52, 61
Evansville IN: 23, 25, 34, furniture makers 34, 37, 38, 44, 46, 51, 52, 54, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64,
66, 71
Evansville, Ohio & Green River Transportation Company: 48
Evansville Packet Company: 61, 62
Eversole, Jack: 84
F
falls: 8
Falls of the Ohio: 4
federal government, control of GrenR: 28, 41, 43, 46
Ferber, Edna, author: 65
ferries: 12
flatboat: x, 11, 12
FLOATING THEATER, showboat: 66
flood-control: x, 71, 73, 74, 77-78, Mining City project 78, upper valley projects 78, 80, 81
floods: 8
Forgy, James: 3, 4
Fort Donelson, CumbR: 26
Fort Henry, TennR: 26
Frankfort KY: 6, 16, 30, 41
Franklin Circuit Court: 43
Freedmen’s Bureau: 28
freight: 23, 34, 38, 49, handling 51, 54, rates 61, corpses 64
freshets: 19
Fulton, Robert: 15
G
gasoline engines: 54
Gasper River: 11, 67
GAYOSO (2210): 61, 63
Gemtown KY: 64
GENERAL WARREN (b1842 at Louisville KY): 23
GENERAL WORTH (b1846 at Louisville KY or b1847 at Cincinnati OH ?): 23
5
Givens, B.F.: 47
GLASGOW (2336 or 2338 ?): 23
Glasgow KY: 4, 25
GOVERNOR BREATHITT (2394): 22, 23
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., USA: 26
Grayson County KY: 55
Grayson Springs KY: 45
Great Depression: x, 67-68, 71
Great Revival movement: 11
Green & Barren line: 30
Green and Barren River Commissioners: 22, 24
Green and Barren River Navigation Company, aka The Navigation Company (GBnav): 16,
charter 27/31-32/42-43, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, steamboats 32/34/45, U.S. Mail franchise 32,
freight 34, 35-36, 37, 38, 39, monopoly 38-40, 41, 42, 43, value of 43-44,
contributions 44, 45, 46, 47
Green league: See Green River Valley Citizens League
Green River Coal Company: 53
Green River Country: ix, 5
Green River Country: 74
Green River Environmental Impact Statement of 1975: 83, 85
Green River fireplace coal: 75
Green River improvements: Green River project 1889 47-48, 72, 73, 74, 82
upper vs. lower valley 77-80
Green River Parkway: 82
Green River project, 1833-1868: 12, 14-27, completed 22
Green River Valley: ix, pattern of settlement ix, settlements 3/5, upper & lower 9, farmland 10,
Climate 10, mean temperature 10, rainfall 10, natural resources 10/11, game 11,
culture & cultural unity 11, politics 11, head of navigation 17, str service 22, tonnage 23,
following Civil War 27/28-29, showboats 65, 73, future 85
Green River Valley Citizens League (aka Green league): 73-75, News-Notes 75/76/80, 77, 78,
80, 81, 82
Green River Valley Improvement and Immigration Association: 52
Greene, W.P.: 51, Green River Country from Bowling Green to Evansville (1898) 52/62, 53, 55,
74
Greensburg KY: 3, 4, 12, 18, 19, 23, 49
Greenville KY: 25
Grundy, Felix: 11
gunboats: 26
H
Haggard, David R., Bii/GBnav: 27, 30, 31
Hall, James L., Judge: 6
Ham, William: 64
Harding, A.P.: 78
Harris, Johh: Merchant mills 12
Harp Brothers: 6, 7
Harp, Micajah “Big”: 6, 7
Harp, Wiley “Little”: 6, 7
Harrodsburg KY: 1
Harpshead KY: 7
Hart County KY: 55
Hartford KY: 3, 4, 25, 64
HAZEL RICE (2562): 59, 69
Henderson KY: 4, 7, 74
Henderson Company: 5
6
Henderson & Nashville RR: 38
Henderson, Richard: 4, 5
Hines, James R.: 69, 74, 76, 80, 81, 86
Hines, John Porter: 49-50, 55
Hines, Thomas H.: 43
highways: 55
Hodgenville KY: 3
Hopkinsville KY: 7, 12, 25
House of Representatives KY: 16
HOUSTON COOMBS (W?): 36
Howell IN: 62
Howell, Lee: 47, 61, 62
Hutchinson, Knox: 86
I
Illinois Central RR: 37
INDIANA (2754?): 53
Indians: x, 1, 2, 3
iron: 11, 15, 35
J
J.C. KERR (2821): 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, p76E
Jefferson, Thomas: 11
Johnson House: 64
Jones, Aunt Trudy: 67
Joppa IL: 78
K
Kaiser Aluminum Company: 78
KALISTA (3201): 50, 55, poem 55, p76F
karstic topography: 9
keelboat: 12
Kentucky Court of Appeals: 43
Kentucky Intelligencer: 41
Kentucky Legislature: 5, first act to improve GrenR 12, 18, 19, 25, after Civil War 27
Kentucky Press Association: 42
Kentucky River: 21, 46
Kentucky rock asphalt: 72
Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company: 55
Kentucky style justice: 7
Kentucky Water Quality Management Plan (aka 303(e) Report): 84
Keplinger, Capt. Mike: 60
Kincheloe, L.H.: 37
Knoblick Creek: 12
Knoxville TN: 81
L
Lacock, Abner: 16, report (plan) 16/17
land claims: 5, 6
L&N bridge, BarenR: 26
L&N RR: 35, 36, 37, 51, 61, 62, to Mammoth Cave 64
lawlessness: 5
7
Letcher, Gov. Robert, KY: 22
Little Barren River: 8, 10
little Ruhr of America: 73
Livermore, Alonzo, civengr: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25
Livermore KY: 36, 50, 55, 59, 60, 64, 74, 77, 86
locks & dams: xi, 14, first five 16-17, 19, labor problems 19-20, 21, 22,
tolls & fees 23/25/32/35/37/42/46, gates 25, following Civil War 27, No.1 37,
No.2 37/p76H, new locks & dams in 1890s 48-49, 50, 68, OhioR Lock No.48 68, 71, 72,
76, Mining City dam 78, new 1956 locks 79, 83, deterioration 84
Logan, Benjamin: 2
logging: 52, decline 53/72, products 53
log rafts: 53
London, England: 63
Long Falls: 3, 7
LONGFELLOW (T1628): 34, 47
Long’s Ferry: 12
Lost River: 9
lost twenty years, slogan: 77
Louisville KY: 4, 23, 38
Louisville & Nashville (L&N) RR: 4
Louisville Courier-Journal: 29, 52
Louisville, St. Louis & Texas RR: 37
lower reaches, GrenR: 9
LUCY WING (3630): 23
lumber: 52
Lunn, Capt. Eugene “Genie”: 69, 70
M
Mill Landing KY: 66
Madisonville KY: 25
MAGGIE BELLE (3687): 56
MAJESTIC, showboat: 65, 66, p76H
MAJOR MacKENZIE (T1699): 50
mail service packets: 47, 54
Mammoth Cave: 9, 48, 50, 64, 66, 69, 73, 78
Mammoth Cave National Park Service: 74, 78
Mason, Samuel, Justice: 7
Massy Springs, KY: 63
Maysville KY: 4
McElroy, Cong. Clarence U.: 38
Mining City KY: 35, 74
monarchs of Green River: 28, 39, 44, 45
Monongahela River: 85
Montgomery, William: 2
Moore, W.A. “Arch”: 76, 77, 80, 82
Morganfield KY: 7
Morgan, Gen. John Hunt, CSA: 43
Morgantown KY: 36, 65, 66, 69
Morris, Mr.: 33
Morton, Sen. Thruston B.: 81
Moss, T.J.: 47
My Old Kentucky Home, song: 3
Muhlenberg County KY: 35, 36, 75, 77
Munfordville KY: 12
Mud River: 3, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 35
8
N
Nashville TN: 4, 11, 26, 37
Natcher, Cong. William H.: 76, 81
Natchez Trace: 7
National Industrial Recovery Act: 72
navigable: definition 12
navigation: advantages 8, difficulties 8, 12, year-round 13
Navigation Company: See: Green and Barren River Navigation Company
Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl, showboat show: 66
NEW ERA, showboat: 66
NEW ORLEANS: first str on Western Rivers 13
New Orleans LA: 23, 45
NEW SENSATION (French’s), showboat: 66
News-Notes: See Green River Valley Citizens League
nine-foot channel: 76, 79
Nolin River: 9, 55, 71, 74, 78, 80
North Carolina: 4
O
obstructions: removal of 12
Ohio River: 1, 4, 9, 17, backwater 19
Ohio River basin survey: 85
Ohio Valley: 11
over the Knobs: 2
Owensboro & Russellville RR: 37, 38
Owensboro KY: 3, 12, 82
Owensboro Messenger: 44
Owensboro Weekly Messenger: 64
P
packet trade: 47, 50, passengers 63, end of era 70
Paradise KY: 78, 83
Paradise Steam Plant: 81
PARK CITY (4392): 57
Park City Daily News (Bowling Green): 52, 82
Park City Daily Times (Bowling Green): 44
Payne, Sen. William, KY, GBnav: 29, 31,32, 42
Peabody Coal Company: 83
Pearson Jr., E.O.: 81
Pennyroyal (plains): 9, 10, 11, naming of 11
photography boat: 55, 56
pioneers: See: settlers
Pittmann Creek: 8
Pitts, Capt./Sen.: 21, 22
pollution problems: 84
Pond River: 7, 9
Portage RR: 51
Potomac River: 15
power industry: 72, 78
PRINCES, showboat: 66
Prine, John, musician: song Paradise 83
9
Q
Quigg Brothers Department Store: 60
R
RACKET (T2105): 53
rafts: See: log rafts
railroads: 36, 37, river connections 37, freight rates 38, 46
Ray F. Weston, Inc.: 84
recreational opportunities: 85
Red River gorge: 83
reforestation: 84
Reis, C.A.: 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 86
Republican Party: 11
Revolutionary War: veterans ix/4, military bounties 4
Reynolds Aluminum Company: 78
Reynolds, Capt. Tom: 65-66
Rhoades, Henry: 3, 4
Rivers & Harbors Acts: of 1888 44, of 1890 48, of 1902 49, of 1930 68, of 1954 79
river crossings: 12
ROBERTSON’S FLOATING PALACE, showboat: 66
Robinson, Capt. John A., GBnav: 33, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42
Rochester KY: 16, 47, 63, 64, 81, 82
rock asphalt: 35
Rockland KY: 67
Rockport KY: 12, 36, 37, 38, 55, 64, 65
Rough River: 7, 9, 12, 48, 53, 71, lock 72, 74, 78, 80
Rough River Reservoir: 81
roustabouts: 51, 62, p76D
Rowan, John: 3
Rumsey, James, inventor: 15
Rumsey KY: 12, 15, 23, 36
Russell Creek: 8
Russellville KY: 3, 4, 25
S
Saintly Hypocrites and Honest Sinners, showboat show: 66
SALLIE ANDERSON (4978): 23
Sally”s Rock: 67, 69, p76G
salt: 11
SAMUEL (T2257): 50, (? sawmill boat) 53
Schroeter, Clifford, photog: 56
Schroeter, Emery, photog: 56
Schroeter, H.O., photog: 55, 56
Scottsville KY: 25, 80
Senate Committee on Public Works: 76
Senate KY: 21
settlers (or pioneers): ix-x, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, commercial development 11, outside contacts 11,
culture 11, politics 11, river improvements 12, end of pioneer era 13
Severn’s Valley KY: 3
sewage wastes: 85
Shaler Nathaniel S., Geologist: 10, 35
SHAWNEE (T2296): 50
10
Shawnees: 2
Shoemaker’s ferry: 12
showboat: 65, 66, receipts 66
sinkholes: 9
Sinking Creek: 9
Skiles, James Rumsey, civengr: 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 74, p76A, 86
Skilesville KY: 3
slackwater navigation: x, 14, 16, to Bowling Green 18, extension to Greensburg 18, affects of
Civil War 25
slaves: 28
sluggish current: 84
Smallhouse, C.G., GBnav: 31, Capt. 33 (?), 42, 45
snags: 8
soil erosion: 84
South Carrollton KY: 15, 36, 38, 54
SOUTHLAND: (5159): 69
Spott’s Falls: 16
Spottsville KY:16, 35
Sproul, Capt. John, GBnav: 30, 31
steamboat service: x, 12, 13, 14, 15, first to arrive at Bowling Green 15, 22, 23, 46, mail 47,
packet trade 47, decline of 67
Stephenson, Gov. John W., KY: 31
Stegal, Moses: 6
Stegal, Mrs. (Moses): 7
STERNWHEELER (W?): 79, 80, 81
Stewart, Charles: 81
strip mining: 73, 83
Stump, Mr.: 6
Suddarth, Patience: 56
sulphur springs: 11
surveys, land: 5
T
Tennessee River: 4, 46
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): 81
Ten Nights in a Bar Room, showboat show: 66
THREE BROTHERS (T2424): 53, 54
303(e) Report: See Kentucky Water Quality Management Plan
tie-hackers: 53
ties, RR: 53
timber: 11, 34, 72
tinshop boat: 56
titheables: 12
tobacco: 10, 34, 38
towboats: 50, decline of 68
trade boats: 55
tributaries: important 8-9
Trinidad: 72
turnhole: p76G
Twain, Mark: 46
U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, showboat show: 66
Underwood, Joseph: 21
11
Underwood, Warner L.: 21
UNITED STATES (b1819 at Jeffersonville IN ?): 15
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USAE): x, 38, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 71, 72, 78, 79, 82,
attacked by environmentalists 83, Green River Environmental Impact Statement of 1975
83/85,
V
Vances Station KY: 3
Van Meter, Charles, GBnav: 30, 31, 45
Van Meter, Jacob: 30
Van Meter, William, GBnav: 30
Vienna KY: 16
Virginia: 4
W
wages: 50
Warren County KY: 15, 21
Washington, George: 15
watermelons: “Georgie Rattlesnake” 59
WATER QUEEN, showboat: 66
Waterways Journal: 69
Webster County KY: 6
Weir, James: 8
Western Coal Fields: 9, 10, 72
Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green: xi, 45
Westerfield, Dr. W.P.: 63, 64
W.H. Shutt limber yard: 50
wildcat whistle: 69
Williams family: 57-61, 62, 69
Williams, J. Edgar, clerk: 57, 58
Williams, Jeff, clerk: 57, 59, 69
Williams, Joseph, engr: 57
Williams, Mrs. Richard: 57, 61
Williams, Capt. Richard T.: 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, p76A, 86
Williams, Capt. Thomas: 57, 58
Williams, Capt. William: 57, 69
Wilson, Miss Ollie: 59
WM. PRESTON DIXON (T2679): 50
Wolf Creek: 12
Wood, Judge J.E.: 77
Woodbury KY: 15, 54, 82
Woolcott, Charles: 53
Woolcott, George: 53
Woolcott, Capt. James F.: 51, 53
Wright, Donald, bridge expert: 79
Y
Yellow Banks KY: 3
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