11. Wharfs for loading flatboats were located along the Kentucky River and its tributaries. 12. Quarries opened up in the 1880s and lime was shipped out on flatboats . 13. Logging and flatboat construction were the initial chief industries. 14. Flatboats were generally built and piloted by the farmers whose crops they carried.15. Osborn planned to load eight flatboats with 35 soldiers each for the initial assault. 16. Hardin's militia then disembarked off the flatboat , and proceeded on foot. 17. East of the Taj Mahal, a farmer pilots a flatboat in the Yamuna River. 18. The flatboats were disassembled upon arrival and the wood used to build a fort .. 19. Cincinnati, another major American trading city, first built itself on the flatboat trade. 20. Blackface singers would often perform " Gumbo Chaff " with a mock flatboat on stage.
