Nancy, You're in good fortune, as I just read something about it the other day.
The fortunate part is that I remembered where I read it.....
"McHarry's Tomb:
On a high bluff just below Bridgeport, on the Ohio River, is a piece of masonary known as
McHarry's TOmb. Captain Frank McHarry whose home was in Portland, Kentucky, was
before the war, a steamboat captian and owner of immediate tracts of land on the Indiana
side about Bridgeport, and one of the ferry boats plying between Louisville and New
Albany
bore his name. He had the contract for building the first canal about the Falls. He
was
an eccentric character and built for himself this tomb on the river hill in order, as he
said,
"that he might curse the steamboat captains as they passed below."
His body rested there for many years, but has been recently been removed by his family
and buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky."
I'm not sure where the original quote came from, but was most likely written about
in the Corydon Democrat or other newspaper of the time. No date has been placed with
this article that I found.
Hope that helps. (Bridgeport, is the area where the relatively new Ceaser's Gaming
Boat has been built).
Lisa of Harrison County
Nancy Cooper wrote:
Does any one have a Harrison co. History that might tell about grain
or sawmills
in the 1830s to 1850s owned by Frank McHarry? Would like to have the
location.
Thanks for any help,
Nancy
encooper(a)cswnet.com
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