Niagara, Kentucky

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Grandpa Jones
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Rivers & Roads in Song near Niagara

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Niagara.

Ohio River 17 songs Wabash River 5 songs

History of Niagara

Henderson, Kentucky: Where Audubon Went Broke and Found the Birds RoadyGoat

The naturalist and painter John James Audubon was born in 1785 on a French sugar plantation in the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue — today Haiti — and was raised in France. He emigrated to the United States in 1803, partly to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army, and after a stint near Philadelphia he settled on the Kentucky frontier in Henderson from 1810 to 1819. There he ran a general store and built a steam-powered grist-and-saw mill that failed, leaving him bankrupt and briefly jailed for debt. While he was away, rats destroyed more than two hundred of his bird drawings. He redrew them to a higher standard, and that ruin pushed him fully into the work that became 'The Birds of America.'

9.5 mi away

That Infernal Mill RoadyGoat

1816

Audubon Mill Park is a small green park on the Ohio River bluff in downtown Henderson, Kentucky, along the Riverwalk. It marks the site where John James Audubon built a steam-powered saw-and-grist mill in 1816 at a cost of about fifteen thousand dollars. The venture was troubled from the start — construction delays, breakdowns, and not enough timber to saw or wheat to grind to turn a profit. Audubon later called it 'that infernal mill.' Its failure in 1819 left his family destitute and hastened his departure from Henderson, but it also freed him from business and pushed him toward painting birds full time.

10.0 mi away

The Audubon Museum RoadyGoat

1938

John James Audubon State Park sits on U.S. 41 in Henderson, Kentucky, just south of the Ohio River, on land near where Audubon lived from 1810 to 1819. At its heart is the Audubon Museum, a French-style stone building with little niches built into its tower for birds to nest in. It opened on July 16, 1938, and holds the world's largest collection of Audubon's original artwork and personal belongings — oil paintings, his handwritten journals, and an original four-volume edition of 'The Birds of America,' the double-elephant-folio book whose plates are printed life-size.

11.6 mi away

Angel Mounds State Historic Site

1050

One of the best-preserved Mississippian culture sites in North America, a fortified town that housed up to 1,000 people near present-day Evansville.

14.6 mi away

Things to Do in Niagara

food 20.3 mi away
Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn

Owensboro Kentucky's mutton barbecue capital since 1963. The burgoo and mutton are western Kentucky traditions you can't find anywhere else.

Everything Near Niagara

14 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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