superintending engineer of the New Haven Steamboat Company, supervised the machinery construction. Island Home first arrived at Nantucket on September...

A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation...

SS Islander until 1928), as well as the steamboat Martha's Vineyard (1871-1910). Additionally the MV Island Home (2007-), MV Sankaty (1994-), and MV Gay...

two: Up Island, the northern landmass Pripet, also known as Warren's Landing or Beckett's Landing – the historic site of a kiln and steamboat wharf North...

Piedra Island, Lake Granby Hadfield Island, South Platte River Bridge Island, Steamboat Lake Watson Island, Colorado River Several Sea Islands, including...

Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Co when that concern was organized in March 1886. (The other three vessels were Island Home, Martha's Vineyard and Monohansett...

20th century. Swedish naturalist Gustav Eisen, who crossed the lake by steamboat in 1878 and undertook an excavation of Sand Ridge probably that same year...

Boston to Long Island Sound, to connect with steamboats that ran to New York. By the end of the decade, Vanderbilt dominated the steamboat business on the...

Mississippi River between the cities of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois. It is home to the United States Army First Army Headquarters, and the United...

completed, connecting the island directly to the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The bridge completely replaced the steamboat system and also led to...

Searstown was annexed by Rock Island in 1915. This area has been a fortuitous place first for settlement and then for steamboat traffic, bridges, and railroads...

passenger-cargo sidewheel steamboat built in 1836 for service on Long Island Sound. When new, she was the largest steamboat yet to operate on the route...

Jefferson Steamboat Company, (which ran a ferry boat line across the Long Island Sound, between Bridgeport, Connecticut to Port Jefferson on Long Island in New...

Navarre, and Deephaven. Hundreds of homes and many local businesses were destroyed during the outbreak. The steamboat Minnehaha, one of the streetcar boats...

Queen is a Louisiana-built river steamship said to be the largest river steamboat ever built. Although the American Queen's stern paddlewheel is indeed...

accommodations while steamboats offered extensive tours among the islands. Wealthy and middle-class summer residents built summer homes, and the region retains...

the General Jackson unloaded at Harpeth Island due to low water while attempting to make the first steamboat journey up the Cumberland River to Nashville...

Fort Slocum. The island is home to the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle, and birds such as osprey and least terns. Davids Island also supports valuable...

Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded...

as Steamboat Island, although this name was apparently also used for Eagle Island itself, in which case Steamboat Island was called "Little Steamboat Island...

operations extended to Southern cities. Being a nephew of Thomas Powell, a steamboat magnate from Newburgh, New York, Parish commissioned the design from Andrew...

justification for the incursion in an 1841 letter to John Forsyth: The steamboat Caroline was a hostile vessel engaged in piratical war against her Majesty's...

through steamboats, railroads, and various business enterprises. He commissioned the construction of a 250-room mansion, the largest privately owned home in...

purchased Children's Island (formerly Cat Island) from David Blaney for USD$1000. In January 1852, he transferred the deed to the Salem Steamboat Company. The...

large and gilded resort, the Calkins Hotel. The hotel was reached via steamboat between Madison Park, Leschi Park, and the Eastside. Guests included President...

maritime forest. Cumberland Island's most famous ecosystem is its beach, which stretches over 17 miles (27 km). The island is home to many native animals,...

public use of Hart Island was training the 31st Infantry Regiment of the United States Colored Troops beginning in 1864.: 15  A steamboat called John Romer...

consisting of 9,000 soldiers, in 11 transports, 11 gunboats, and 11 steamboats. Headed by Admiral José Malcampo, the contingent captured Jolo and established...

The steamboat Pennsylvania was a side wheeler steamboat which suffered a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River and sank at Ship Island near Memphis...

throughout the "Rock Island Rapids" became a greater concern. Over time, a minor industry grew up in the area to meet the steamboats' needs. Boat crews...