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Sixty years ago this past week, a sternwheel towboat race was held at Charleston, WV, in conjunction with the state centennial celebration.

High water closed most of the Upper Mississippi River to commercial traffic as 33 river gauges showed “major flooding.”

The Kanawha or Great Kanawha River is West Virginia’s largest inland waterway, flowing for 156 km. The river serves as a tributary of the Ohio River.

CHARLESTON — Atop the metal frame of a power substation overlooking the Kanawha River at Belle, West Virginia, a pair of adult ospreys stood watch over a large nest assembled

Built in 1927 by the Charles Ward Engineering Works, the Duncan Bruce was described as “a last attempt to revive the sternwheel towboat.”