Louisville and Portland Canal
The Louisville and Portland Canal was a 1.9-mile canal bypassing the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. The Falls form the only barrier to navigation between the origin of the Ohio at Pittsburgh and the port of New Orleans near the Gulf of Mexico; circumventing them was long a goal for Pennsylvanian and Cincinnatian merchants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portland Museum and Boone Square.
Portland Museum
Museum
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The Portland Museum is a neighborhood history and art museum in Louisville, Kentucky. It details the history of the Portland neighborhood both as an independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal.
Boone Square
Park
Boone Square is one of the Frederick Law Olmsted parks in Louisville, Kentucky. It is also one of the smaller ones, one full city block in size. In the middle of Louisville's working-class Portland neighborhood, it is bordered by 19th St. on the west, Duncan St. on the south, 20th St. on the east and Rowan St. on the north.
Fourteenth Street Bridge
Bridge
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The Fourteenth Street Bridge, also known as the Ohio Falls Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, Conrail Railroad Bridge or Louisville and Indiana Bridge, is a truss drawbridge that spans the Ohio River, between Louisville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Indiana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Russell and Louisville.
Russell
Neighborhood
Russell is a neighborhood immediately west of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. It is nicknamed "Louisville's Harlem". It was named for renowned African American educator and Bloomfield, Kentucky native, Harvey Clarence Russell Sr.
Louisville
Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, is known for the Kentucky Derby horserace and as the "gateway to the south" from southern Indiana. It's a lively mid-sized city with an excellent dining scene, ample opportunities for bourbon tasting, and interesting public art.
Portland
Hamlet
Portland is a historic district, neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is situated along a bend of the Ohio River just below the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area, where the river curves to the north and then to the south, thus placing Portland at the northern tip of urban Louisville. Portland is situated 1½ miles west of Louisville and Portland Canal.
Louisville and Portland Canal
- Type: Canal
- Description: canal in the United States of America
- Category: body of water
- Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Louisville and Portland Canal” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Louisville and Portland Canal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لويزفيل وقناة بورتلاند”
- Japanese: “ルイビル・ポートランド運河”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shippingport and Lannan Memorial Park.
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