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Riverfront near Flood Wall & Ky. Ave., Paducah
Please note that this historical marker, installed in 1968, recognizes major waterways that may be navigated by private boaters at their own leisure. The Kentucky Historical Society does not operate any pleasure-boat tours in Paducah or elsewhere.
For more information on boating opportunities and marinas in Kentucky, visit https://www.kentuckytourism.com/.
This unique pleasure-boat tour is an eighty-mile loop from Paducah up the Tennessee, through Kentucky Lock, up Kentucky Lake, through the Land-Between-The-Lakes Canal, down Barkley Lake, through Barkley Lock, down the Cumberland to Smithland, and down the Ohio back to Paducah. West Kentucky has greatest concentration of major navigable rivers in world. Over.
Paducah Harbor - The deep protected water between Owens Island opposite and the Kentucky shore has been a major base for commercial navigation throughout Paducah's history. Every type of barge and boat used in the Mississippi Valley has been built, repaired, manned, and supplied here. It was a famous ice-free winter harbor for steamboats from the northern rivers. Presented by Crounse Corp.