locally as the "Steamboat Peninsula". Founded in 1909, Steamboat Island was named by local settlers who thought the island resembled a steamboat. The peninsula...
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A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. The term steamboat is used to refer to...
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superintending engineer of the New Haven Steamboat Company, supervised the machinery construction. Island Home first arrived at Nantucket on September...
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as Steamboat Island, although this name was apparently also used for Eagle Island itself, in which case Steamboat Island was called "Little Steamboat Island...
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Lake Washington steamboats and ferries operated from about 1875 to 1951, transporting passengers, vehicles and freight across Lake Washington, a large...
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"Sand Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. "Steamboat Island". Geographic...
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The North River Steamboat or North River, colloquially known as the Clermont, is widely regarded as the world's first vessel to demonstrate the viability...
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Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Co when that concern was organized in March 1886. (The other three vessels were Island Home, Martha's Vineyard and...
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Piedra Island, Lake Granby Hadfield Island, South Platte River Bridge Island, Steamboat Lake Watson Island, Colorado River Several Sea Islands, including...
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the center of it. A spit extends west for about 300 feet (91 m) from Steamboat Island. The inlet shoals gradually to near Burns Point, 100 feet high, on...
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to form South Thurston Fire & EMS in 2017. Fire District 13 serves Steamboat Island, south to Route 8. Fire District 14 merged with Fire District 1 in...
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Miss Susie (redirect from Miss Susie Had a Steamboat)
Ms Yannucci credited her version as from Long Island in the 1970s. Bohren, Django. "Lulu had a steamboat Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine" at...
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Line Island Steamboat Island - historical Steins Island Strawberry Island Streets Island Sweetgum Island - historical Tait Island Ten Islands - historical...
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The Newport and Wickford Railroad and Steamboat Company was a railroad and steamboat operator in Rhode Island. It was first chartered in 1862 as the Wickford...
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was a passenger steamboat built in 1900 which served on Puget Sound until it was destroyed by fire. Eagle was a smaller type of steamboat called a "steam...
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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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Steamboat Slough is an alternate branch of the Sacramento River, named for its popular use by steamboats traveling between San Francisco and Sacramento...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (category Businesspeople from Staten Island)
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...
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The steamboat Monmouth disaster of October 31, 1837, killed approximately 311 Muscogee people who were being forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland...
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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...
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a bar (branded the Steamboat Lounge), food service, restrooms, and both indoor and outdoor seating. Travel time across Long Island Sound is approximately...
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Inlet Henderson Inlet Case Inlet Islands Fox Island McNeil Island Anderson Island Hartstene Island Steamboat Island Great tidal variation gives rise to...
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The steamboat Fortuna was a vessel that operated on Lake Washington in the first part of the 20th century. Fortuna was built in 1904 at a shipyard on...
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eastern end of Long Island. The boats ran along the north shore of Long Island. There were also steamboats to Block Island, Rhode Island where connections...
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the Hunt Brothers, who ran a family steamboat business on Puget Sound. The Hunts ran the vessel to stops on Bay Island in southern Puget Sound, and also...
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(595 m) Steamboat Island, Cascade County, Montana, 47°31′47″N 111°14′27″W / 47.52972°N 111.24083°W / 47.52972; -111.24083 (Steamboat Island), el. 3...
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The Island Queen was a series of two American sidewheeler steamboats built in 1896 and 1925 respectively. Both vessels were passenger carriers cruising...
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Island Princess may refer to: The Island Princess, a play by John Fletcher SS Island Princess, a steamboat operated by Canadian Pacific Railway in the...
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Washoe was an 1864 steamboat of the Sacramento River watershed in California, United States. Washoe suffered a catastrophic boiler explosion six months...
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Memorial Bridge, which served as the start/finish line. Both steamboats raced to Six Mile Island, where they turned around to return to the bridge. The distance...
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