We took a ride the other day and went someplace we had never been before. We went north up Interstate 71 toward Cincinnati, Ohio but turned off and went through Florance, Kentucky then caught a secondary road through Union, Kentucky and came back to Carrollton, Kentucky that way. Along the way we saw a small pull off with a great view of the Ohio River. There was a flag pole there with a sign under it telling a  huge wreak between two riverboats in 1868. As much history as I have studied on the United States and as many fiction books I have read that usually had some sort of refferenc to historic events this was one I had never heard off.