The steamboat Pennsylvania was a side wheeler steamboat which suffered a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River and sank at Ship Island near Memphis...
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name Pennsylvania (steamboat), a Mississippi steamboat that exploded and sank on June 13, 1858 Pennsylvania (album) (1998), by Pere Ubu "Pennsylvania" (song)...
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A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation...
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Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, allowing practical large-scale transport of...
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Robert Fulton (redirect from Fulton Steamboat Inn)
engines and the idea of steamboats in 1777 when he was around age 12 and visited state delegate William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was interested...
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of Pennsylvania was a steamboat that was built in Wilmington, Delaware in 1923, along with her identical sister ship State of Delaware. The steamboat operated...
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Museum Mark Twain House Mud clerk Paddle steamer Pennsylvania steamboat Riverboat Steamboat Steamboats of the Mississippi Facsimile of the original 1st...
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are housed in the Arabia Steamboat Museum. The Arabia was built in 1853 around the Monongahela River in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Its paddle wheels were...
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Enterprise (1814) (redirect from Enterprise (steamboat))
The steamboat Enterprise demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2,200-mile (3,500 km) voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, that...
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2010, accessed February 8, 2012. Marc N. Henshaw, The Steamboat Industry in Brownsville Pennsylvania: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Economic Change...
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Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters is a book published in 1856 listing steamboat businesses in the United States, along with...
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Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States. Her 1811–1812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana...
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Civil Beat. Retrieved June 24, 2024. Lloyd, James T. (1856). Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters. Cincinnati, O.: J.T. Lloyd...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With an engine and power train designed and built by Daniel French, the Comet was the first of the Western steamboats to be powered...
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unincorporated community located in Upper Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Southampton is 18 miles north, from the center of Philadelphia. Its...
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The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri...
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Harry Samuel "Steamboat" Johnson (March 26, 1880 – February 20, 1951) was a professional baseball umpire. Johnson, born in Pennsylvania in 1880, was a...
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American Queen (category Delta Queen Steamboat Company)
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...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (section Steamboat entrepreneur)
ferry entrepreneur named Thomas Gibbons asked Vanderbilt to captain his steamboat between New Jersey and New York. Although Vanderbilt kept his own businesses...
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is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Originally founded as a steamboat building town, chief industries later included the production of oil,...
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John Fitch (inventor) (category People from Warminster, Pennsylvania)
entrepreneur, and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. The first boat, 45 feet long, was tested...
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"2016 Pennsylvania general election..." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved October 15, 2017. "Election Night Reporting". Mohney, Jay. W. "Steamboat Building...
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President (redirect from President (steamboat))
2020–present Vietnamese mid-size SUV President (1924 steamboat), an American river excursion steamboat President (narrowboat), a preserved English, steam-powered...
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Mifflin Kenedy (category People from Chester County, Pennsylvania)
Kenedy (1818–1895) was a rancher, steamboat operator, and investor who settled in Texas. He began his steamboating career on the Ohio, Mississippi, and...
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Pittsburgh (redirect from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania)
the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, and the 68th-most...
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Oil City is the largest city in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. Known for its prominence in the initial exploration and development of the...
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Western Pennsylvania is a region in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania encompassing the western third of the state. Pittsburgh is the region's principal...
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Allegheny City was a municipality that existed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1788 until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. It was located north...
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Henry Clay was an American side paddle wheel steamboat. Built in 1851, it caught fire while on a run on the Hudson River between Albany, New York and...
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United States Supreme Court concerning its obstruction of the new high steamboat smokestacks eventually cleared the way for other bridges, especially needed...
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