VIRGINIA

Virginia

Photographer unknown, 1900s
OCPL Collection
Further enlargement (a little fuzzy)
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The Virginia was built in 1895. She is most famous for getting stuck in a cornfield during a flood in 1910, but had a career filled with accidents. Renamed Steel City in 1912. In the 1920s was renamed Island Belle. Way's Packet Directory (p. 471-2)


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