Real river stories worth reading — not SEO filler.
The human history behind Hamilton’s low dam — including the 2003 double fatality, firefighter Chris Gabbard’s extraordinary 2007 survival, a 1989 helicopter rescue, and the modern push to change the river.
$2.45M in H2Ohio funding launched design and technical evaluation.
Nine to eleven inches of rain in three days overwhelmed the watershed. Hamilton lost all four river bridges.
Fort Hamilton was built on the banks of the Great Miami during St. Clair’s 1791 campaign.
Thomas Kelsey and inventor Daniel French tried to build a shallow-water steamboat for the Great Miami. It never fulfilled the dream.
Hamilton merchants used the river as part of a freight route toward the Ohio and Mississippi systems.
A major Myaamia settlement and British trading post near present-day Piqua became a flashpoint in imperial competition.
The 274-mile canal connected Cincinnati and Toledo. The 1913 flood devastated locks, banks and aqueducts.
A temporary U.S. 52 bridge section fell about 40 feet into the rain-swollen Great Miami. Two people died.
One of the finest surviving Long-truss bridges still spans the Great Miami north of Troy.
Pollution controls, restoration and recreation have changed the river’s role in the region.
The Miami Conservancy District’s flood system grew directly from the catastrophe of 1913.