In March 1910, floodwaters along the Ohio River carried the grand sternwheel steamboat Virginia far off course, into a flooded cornfield near Willow Grove, West Virginia. What should have been a routine operation to get the boat back into the water turned into months of futile effort that got national attention.
Crowds traveled for miles to see the sight of a massive riverboat stranded hundreds of feet from the Ohio River while crews struggled to free it, in the process making a disturbing discovery.
It’s another one of the Stories of Appalachia.
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