RIVER TRAFFIC

Articles About River Transportation

  • Boat Building Flourished Here (from the News Register, 1951).
  • Wheeling's boat building industry (Intelligencer, brief piece from 1960)
  • An account of the river steamer Washington, built in Wheeling in 1816
  • The port of Wheeling in 1879 from Newton's History of the Pan-Handle, 1879
  • A. J. Sweeney & Son, steamboat builders, 1886.
  • River news, Jan. 1888, including a run of the coal fleet.
  • A.M. Phillips & Co., boat builders from 1830's-70's from Newton's History of the Pan-Handle, 1879.
  • Engineer William Page killed on Nail City, 1879
  • Obituary of riverman George H. Peppers, 1879.
  • Mary (Mrs. Gordon) Greene licensed as pilot, 1896
  • Capt. C. W. Batchelor, 1823-1896

    Photo Gallery of Boats on the Ohio River

    Plus articles about specific boats
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