The Buffalo Trail & Dewey Heights: The Story of the Northern Approach to the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge.

The Eclipse and Shipbuilding: An interesting account focusing on the opulent passenger steamboat, The Eclipse, and mention of the shipbuilding industry, written by Wally Criswell for the New Albany Valley News in 1959.

Excerpts from Hise Letters: Correspondence between the Hise brothers, early shipbuilders of New Albany, covering almost twenty years, from 1826 to 1854.

Field of Honor: This was the "duel ground for some of Kentucky's most distinguished statesmen, soldiers and scholars", located on the Indiana shore, "immediately below the mouth of Silver Creek".

In the Heyday of Steamboating: By Mart Tellon, of East Market street, whose father was one of the biggest steamboat and foundry men of New Albany back in the 1850s.

New Albany Shipyards 1859: Mention of shipbuilders and rivermen and some of the New Albany-built boats, including the Baltic, Eclipse, A. L. Shotwell, and the Robert E. Lee.

The New Ferry Boat 'Frank McHarry': Her Dimensions, Capacity and Power. Information regarding the construction of a new ferry boat to be named after the late legendary Capt. Frank McHarry; built under superintendency of Capt. William Jones and Capt. Moses Irwin; to be commanded by Capt. John B. Mitchell and piloted by Thomas Conner.

A Startling Wreck (Towboat James Blakemore): The Towboat James Blakemore Literally Torn to Pieces by the Ohio's Current. Boat a Total Loss and Narrow Escape of the Crew.

The Steamer Edward Gay: A report from James Abbey aboard the steamboat Edward Gay and other river happenings in October of 1859.

Wreck of the Lucy Walker: A report on the condition of several members who had attended a meeting of the Southern Synod and were returning to their homes on the steamboat Lucy Walker when her boilers exploded.