Last week’s contest was won by 2cents, with a big assist from N in Seattle. The correct location was a bulldozed project in Lexington, KY.
Apparently, Microsoft moved their maps over to bing.com. It appears to work the same as the old site. Good luck!
Keller Ferry? Eastern Washington
Amazing. It COULD be White’s Ferry, between VA & MD: HERE
But the image is a different season, river level, boat position …
The Keller Ferry is more of a north/south run; this one looks east/west. I thought it might be the Columbia/Inchelium run farther up the lake, but no dice there, either.
Got it. It IS White’s Ferry … but the view is THIS ONE
Well done!
Could you clue us in on how you figure that out? I looked at Google Maps but I see nothing that would even hint at where to start looking….
Nice job wes.
It looks like you could wing a rock across the river. Anyone know why it still exists?
Looked like a cable ferry. I looked up cable ferries via google, and wikipedia had a list of all of them in the US. Whites Ferry was one of them — even has a photo.
Still had to find the others, to make sure it wasn’t the same model ferry on a different river.
Why do they still have the ferry?
To get to the other side.
@8
Nice job, wes!
Coming in late to the game….
White’s Ferry features in the aborted Union campaign to make an early inroad into northern Virginia in 1861. Unfortunately for the Union troops, they got stuck on a plateau above a bluff which went down to the Potomic River, and got clobbered by the Confederates who pushed them back to the point where the Union troops were trying to run down the narrow path from the bluff to the river, and getting shot at even while they tried to swim across. It was a poorly executed venture which suffered from “mission creep” (the scope of the mission expands beyond the original goals), and lack of logistical support (pontoon bridges, etc.). The failure at Ball’s Bluff resulted in the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, the Union commander was imprisoned without charge on vague suspicians of being a southern sympathizer, etc.