EarlyWorks Keelboat

The EarlyWorks Children's Museum, in Huntsville, Madison County, has numerous exhibits related to Alabama history, including this historically accurate 46-foot-keelboat that enables visitors of all ages to experience river travel in the nineteenth century.

Indoor museum exhibit featuring a large wooden keelboat with rigging and cargo, with visitors aboard and a river scene projected on the wall behind it.
Photo courtesy of the Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive, Library of Congress
Indoor museum exhibit featuring a large wooden keelboat with rigging and cargo, with visitors aboard and a river scene projected on the wall behind it.