Edward West tested a model of the steamboat engine on the Town Branch of Elkhorn Creek in 1793, making him the first person in the U.S. to do so.

Recently I discovered something new about a Warminster man who invented the steamboat and a workable submarine. He also conceived the first car while strolling through town. John Fitch “just ...

A photograph of the steamboat Robert E. Lee at about 10 a.m. July 4, 1870, from the bluffs of Carondelet, seven miles below the finish line at the St. Louis riverfront.

This week’s Historical Treasure isn’t about a person, place or thing. It’s about a very special time in the history of Terre Haute, the era of the steamboat.