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The Great Steamboat Race is an annual steamboat race, taking place the Wednesday before the first Saturday of May, three days before the Kentucky Derby, as part of the Kentucky Derby Festival. The race was first run in 1963 and it takes place on the Ohio River in the span that runs between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Boarding. 5:45 PM: Departure. 6:00 PM: Race Begins. As one of the original and longest standing traditions of the Kentucky Derby Festival, the Great Steamboat Race has been taking place on the Ohio River since 1963.
26 de abr. de 2023 · History Correspondent. April 26, 2023. A lithograph of the 1870 Great Mississippi Steamboat Race Metropolitan Museum of Art under public domain. During the 19th century, hundreds of...
4 de may. de 2023 · by Kelby Ouchley. Currier & Ives, Library of Congress. The great Mississippi steamboat race: from New Orleans to St. Louis, July 1870. An event that became known as the Great American Steamboat Race pitted the steamboats Robert E. Lee and Natchez in an epic twelve-hundred-mile race from New Orleans to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1870.
3 de may. de 2023 · LOUISVILLE, Ky. — This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Kentucky Derby Festival's Great Steamboat Race. Here's everything you need to know about this year's race. Advertisement....
26 de abr. de 2022 · Boarding for the Great Steamboat Race will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., with all the boats departing the shore at 5:45 for a 6 p.m. start. The Awards Ceremony will take place immediately following on the Chow Wagon Stage at Kroger’s Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront.
4 de may. de 2023 · LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Belle of Louisville remains queen of the Ohio River for the fourth straight year. The hometown steamboat was declared the winner of the Great Steamboat Race Wednesday night following deliberations by the judges, the boat Captains, Derby Festival Officials and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.
