City of Ironton

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Title: City of Ironton
Creator(s): Hartford, John
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): City of Ironton (Steamboat)
Steamboats
Description: The City of Ironton was built in 1879 at Ironton, Ohio and ran in the Portsmouth and Huntington trade. She was very speedy. Later she was sold to the Mississippi River, rebuilt into the Issaquena and ran on the Mississippi River. In 1884 we find her registered at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Note: Signage on boat: Daily packet. Ironton to Huntington 3 P.M.
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Classification: p29-ovr-4-0047
Owner: Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library