Sternwheeler Big Kanawha, built 1887. She encountered heavy ice at Maysville, Kentucky, in 1906 and was sunk. Her roof bell wound up in the belfry of the Trinity Church in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Big Kanawha
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Big Kanawha (Steamboat)PacketsFerries
Maysville (Ky.)Point Pleasant (W. Va.)
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