Washington slept at Fly, local residents say. There once was a post office, a grocery store, tavern and the beloved Fly Elementary School, before consolidation. Wright attended there. It's not dying, but it's not thriving. It's just the way we like it.
Tourists enjoy it.
It runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., depending. Some people travel miles to Fly just to ride the ferry, Cochran said. In 1913 and 1937, flood water covered the road and Fly. Both dried out. The few stores and houses along the highway are squeezed along a narrow ribbon of land between the Ohio River and towering green walls of trees that are on the edge of Wayne National Forest.