Point Pleasant River Museum & Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center

09/05/2026

Wishing all the boats of American Sternwheel Association a smooth trip this regatta season. Great pics for

09/03/2026

Some sternwheelers on their way to Marietta, OH, to participate in the 50th Annual Ohio River Sternwheel Festival. Amherst Madison’s M/V LUCEDALE is seen transporting Sternwheelers HENNY COOK, ROY C., KANAWHA, and NEMACOLIN, plus a couple flat barges that will serve as the festival’s entertainment stage passing through Belleville Lock and Dam. Photograph by Todd Hanson 8/30/2026 for

09/02/2026

Old Boat Column from Captain David Smith at The Waterways Journal

The Kansas City was a 1955 SCNO towboat built for Missouri River service, later changing owners and names before moving to South America.

09/01/2026

courtesy of Ohio & Kanawha River Photography

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from discovery to a way of love and life. This a part of a long and continuing…

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

Can’t wait to see you all at movie night tonight!!

08/29/2026

WE’RE LOOKING FOR BOAT HATS!

The Point Pleasant River Museum & Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center is looking for old or new hats with a river, boat, towboat, steamboat, or marine-related theme to become part of a new museum exhibit!

Do you have a hat from a boat company, towboat company, marine business, river event, or anything featuring a boat or river-related logo or image that you’re willing to donate?

We have a fun idea for displaying them: we want to string the hats together and hang them from one of the rafters inside the museum, creating a unique and colorful display celebrating the people, companies, and vessels that have been part of life on the Ohio River.

If you have hats you’d like to donate, please let us know! We can make arrangements to pick them up, or you can drop them off at the Point Pleasant River Museum & Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center, and one of our employees will make sure they are safely stored until we have enough to create the display.

Whether it’s one hat or a whole collection, we’d love to give it a place in our museum and help tell the story of the river through the things people wore while working and living along it.

Help us fill the rafters with a little piece of River history!

Point Pleasant River Museum & Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center

08/29/2026

The American Heritage sternwheeler passing by our mum field in Mason, WV yesterday morning. Photo taken by Ashley Riffle.