Salt River Trade
The Salt River was important in the early salt trade. Flatboats and keelboats were used to transport salt and farm products down the Salt River and from there to Louisville or places down the Ohio River.
With the coming of steamboats, the extents of travel on the Salt and Rolling Fork Rivers was greatly limited. These larger boats lay too deep in the river to go much further upstream than the town of Pitts Point.
This section describes two of the small steamboats that plied the Salt River, and the extent of that trade.