By the 1870s, steamboat lines were flourishing along the ... s book When Kissimmee Was Young recalls that in the early 1880s her uncle, L.A. Willson, arrived from Kentucky to a boom town on ...

Built in 1970 in Ohio, SPLASH is a replica of an 1880 stern-wheel steamboat. Hoebel bought it and, in 1998, brought it to New Jersey. The steamboat classrooms began after the vessel was launched ...

The French Broad Steamboat Company decided that the problem ... critics of the plan cited the failed federal efforts of the 1870s and 1880s. The TVA eventually withdrew its plans.

When the river was dredged deeper in the Pittston area sometime in the latter half of the 1880s, steamboat service expanded up river to Tunkhannock. At the center was Wilkes-Barre where several ...

By the late 1880s, the Indian River Steamboat Co. made regular trips with its steamer George M. White, a combination passenger and freight boat. The company added a larger boat, the Georgiana.

By the mid-1880s four steamboat lines were making scheduled stops from Fort Myers to Kissimmee. “Passengers,” writes Hopwood, “were alternately thrilled and frightened by the terrible ...

The 15-ton vessel, a replica of an 1880 stern-wheel steamboat, serves as a floating classroom every summer, plying the river while volunteers teach students using a hands-on curriculum.

Steamboat traffic continued to increase steadily ... The ”Enoch Pratt,” ”Ida” and ”Avalon” also made trips on this river in the 1880s. Runs were developed on the Mattaponi and Pamunkey ...

Original calliope from 1880-built paddlewheel steamboat to be placed aboard Queen of the Mississippi. American Cruise Lines, operator of the newest riverboats and small cruise ships in the United ...

“There were steamboat wars out on this lake,” Dersch ... for those staying in cottages around the lake. In the late 1880s, Poisson’s fiercest competitor was Captain Sigo Tyroller, a Grand ...