“In 1782, a Pennsylvania farmer named Jacob Yoder supposedly floated the first flatboat to market in New Orleans. Its heyday for travel in this area may well have been 1800-1830,” Preston said.

Rockport - Spencer County plans to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's life next year by recreating his 1828 flatboat journey down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809, ...

6. WHAT IF? Abraham Lincoln famously visited New Orleans in 1828, arriving on a flatboat as a 19-year-old.But he almost didn't make it. As pointed out in Laborde's film, Lincoln and his captain ...

Author Rinker Buck, now 71, had his flatboat constructed on a Tennessee farm, then floated from about Pittsburgh to New Orleans.

This artist's rendering shows the flatboat that is to be constructed in front of Netherland Inn. Contributed photo.