{"nrhp_refnum":"82003575","name":"Anderson Ferry","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Off U.S. 50","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.07652296900005,"lon":-84.62438287399993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial Ohio River ferry crossing between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Constance, Boone County, Kentucky, nominated as a district. It includes the Ohio landing site, the Kentucky landing site with a small farm complex, and two ferry boats, Boone #7 (1937) and Little Boone (1952).","why_significant":"The ferry is significant in transportation for its long, continuous service carrying people, goods and vehicles across the Ohio River. It operated before the first permanent bridge in the area opened in 1866 and still operates. The land around the landings keeps an open, rural character that conveys a sense of place for the crossing.","narrative":"Anderson Ferry is a working river crossing on the Ohio River, linking western Cincinnati, Ohio, with Constance, Kentucky. The nominated district covers about 1.2 acres on the Ohio shore and 7.4 acres on the Kentucky shore, including a small farm complex of a house, a barn and outbuildings near the Kentucky landing. Two boats serve the crossing. Boone #7, built in 1937 of steel plate, is a double-ended diesel side-paddlewheel ferry. Little Boone, built in 1952, is a barge pushed by a work boat on a pivot hitch. George Anderson bought an existing ferry in 1817, and Charles Kottmyer purchased it in 1865; the Kottmyer family has operated it since, building several boats. The ferry predates the area's first permanent bridge and still provides a link between the two states. Review comments treated the 1937 boat as contributing, while the 1952 boat was considered too recent.","period_of_significance":"1817","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The ferry remains in active commercial operation, running about 15 hours a day. The nomination describes it as carrying 150-200 vehicles when river conditions permit.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.626566-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003575.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003575/f053d88139-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003575/f053d88139-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Sean Biehle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anderson_Ferry.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Biehle</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anderson_Ferry.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989263","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Ferry","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4754065"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/anderson-ferry-82003575/"}