If you’ve ever driven past the Louisville waterfront and glanced at the Belle of Louisville without stopping, this article is your formal notice that you’ve been making a mistake.
She looks like she belongs to Louisville, she feels like she belongs to Louisville, but the Belle of Louisville wasn’t born here, and the journey that brought her to this river is one of the best stories in the state.
It starts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
That’s where the boat was built, and that’s where she first hit the water under the name Idlewild…