HUNTINGTON — The last remaining steam-powered passenger boat on the Ohio River will pass Huntington late Thursday morning or in the early afternoon. The Belle of Louisville is on its way to the Amherst Madison yard at Gallipolis, Ohio, for its five-year Coast Guard inspection, repairs and preparation for winter. The boat was expected to spend Wednesday night near Franklin Furnace, Ohio.

The Belle offers excursions out of its home port of Louisville.

The Belle of Louisville was built in 1914 and is the oldest operating Mississippi River-style steamboat in the United States. It’s the only steamboat in the nation to have reached the age of 100, as many boats of its era had short lives. Its steam engines date back to the mid-1800s and still function.

It passed Portsmouth, Ohio, Wednesday

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