This riverfront town/area sounds like a really neat place to me. I like what is described as the scene with river traffic and the quaintness and picturesque smallish river towns like this in the Midwest. I have a fondness for observing and poking around these types of riverfront towns.
when out on the road.

IMO; Many, many river towns became the places that time forgot as highways were built and trucks were employed as another means of transport, leaving the commerce that once was only served by river, OR railway, became wide-open with highways - thereby leaving many towns to die from lack of commerce and inhabitants. Such was progress in 20th Century America.

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