Bringing the Past into the Future

Standing atop a gentle rise overlooking the Ohio River, the Farnsley-Moremen House is the centerpiece of a nearly 300-acre historical site now known as Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing. It is a testament to the importance of the river to the nineteenth century homes built along this waterway, that the front door opens to the Ohio.Indeed Riverside is a tribute to the area's farm families who dominated the county's economy for a century from 1830-1930. Two such families in southwest Jefferson County, the Farnsleys and the Moremens, brought Riverside to life by cultivating its fields and trading on the Ohio.Today, researchers are carefully reconstructing Riverside's nineteenth century landscape and the lives of those who worked it. Research of long disappeared outbuildings and silenced workers paint a more complete picture of farm life along the Ohio. Through the process of discovery, the public has had the opportunity to touch and interpret Riverside's...