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    A flatboat (or broadhorn) was a rectangular flat-bottomed boat with square ends used to transport freight and passengers on inland waterways in the United...
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    lived just northeast of New Port, managed to reach New Orleans with a flatboat shipment and return safely. In early 19th-century East Tennessee, which...
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  • Moore Bourbons Go the Extended Cask Finishing Route". 10 December 2020. "Flatboat Bourbon – Liquor Barn". "El Toro Tequila". El Toro Tequila official web...
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    six years. Lincoln and some friends took goods, including live hogs, by flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he first witnessed slavery. Speculation...
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    page 4 Milburn, William Henry (1892). The Lance, Cross and Canoe: The Flatboat, Rifle and Plough in the Valley of the Mississippi. N.D. Thompson Publishing...
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    experimentation, and agricultural wealth transported on the Ohio River riverboats, flatboats, canal boats, and railroads.[citation needed] The first violent conflicts...
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    issued out of Cincinnati were sparse. Settler migration was chiefly via flatboat on the Ohio River westerly, and by wagon trails up the Wabash/White River...
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    at the confluence of three major rivers in the Tennessee Valley brought flatboat and later steamboat traffic to its waterfront in the first half of the...
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    shipyards around the world. Abora Barge Cabin cruiser Car float Dinghy Dory Flatboat Halkett boat Inflatable boat Launch (boat) Log canoe Narrowboat Naval architecture...
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    1759. Barge Bateau Bull boat Car float Coracle Currach Dory Durham boat Flatboat Gondola Jon boat Keelboat Landing Ship, Tank Norfolk punt Pirogue Pontoon...
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    shipping goods eastward. The easiest way to ship produce was to use a flatboat to float it down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the port of New Orleans...
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    the Mississippi River watershed. The river was filled with steamboats, flatboats and sailing ships. Despite its role in the slave trade, New Orleans at...
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    Commerce in the Early 1800s" (PDF). Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History. University of Louisiana at Lafayette...
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    DARKY LIFE IN THE CORNFIELD, Canebrake, BARNYARD, AND ON THE LEVEE AND FLATBOAT." Keeping with convention, black minstrels still corked the faces of at...
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  • building is a replica of a 1700s flatboat used by the early settlers wanting to travel further west down the river. This flatboat is available for any visitor...
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    From 1831 to 1865, the design of the state seal was unregulated, but common embellishments included a flatboat or canal boat....
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    Franklin was hired by his older brothers, James and John Franklin, to sail by flatboat from Gallatin to market at New Orleans via the Cumberland, Ohio, and Mississippi...
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    "The Green Venice": an inner canal seen from a flatboat....
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    operations in August 1942 and sank numerous smaller Soviet watercraft and flatboats and assaulted enemy bases and beach fronts until it was dissolved in the...
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    who emerged as a noted war chief. Tecumseh participated in attacks on flatboats traveling down the Ohio River, carrying waves of immigrants into lands...
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    chickens, and pigs) could be transported on a flatboat. Farmer Jacob Yoder of Pennsylvania built the first flatboat at Old Redstone Fort on the Monongahela...
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    soldiers and "The Northern Rangers".: 53–58  In the meantime, steamboat and flatboat traffic on the Red River came to a halt. Mail carriers, stage drivers and...
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  • Midway Lt. Cmdr. Charles Fenton Uncredited 1976 Treasure of Matecumbe Flatboat Leader 1977 Poco... Little Dog Lost Mr. McKinna 1979 A Force of One Melrose...
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    keelboat classes (list of keelboat classes designed before 1970) Ferryboat Flatboat Keelmen Lewis and Clark's keelboat List of sailing boat types Mike Fink...
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    Landing, located below the bluff from Natchez. This windstorm tossed 116 flatboats (of the 120 docked at Natchez that day) into the river, drowning their...
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    especially the Kentucky boatmen (Kaintucks) who regularly visited, steering flatboats down the Mississippi River filled with goods for market. Realizing that...
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    reach the Mississippi River. De Soto and his men spent a month building flatboats, and crossed the river at night to avoid the Native Americans who were...
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    Brownsville, Pennsylvania. They completed the journey down the Ohio River by flatboat. The Clark family settled at "Mulberry Hill", a plantation along Beargrass...
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    with the tale of his flatboat cruise down the Ohio River in 1785. The story relates how Ward navigated a 45-foot long flatboat laden with horses and...
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    cities in the region were connected via wagon roads to lowland areas, and flatboats provided an important means for transporting goods out of the region....
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