Illustration of St. Louis levee along North Market Street. Steamboats docked in foreground. Warehouses visible behind steamboats. Manufacturing and office buildings visible in background.
diameter; stroke 7 feet. Sternwheel 181/2 feet in diameter with buckets 22 feet long. She came out in May 1902 with double stages, mast, etc. and looked this way until after sold to the Shippers Packet Company, Pittsburg, Pa., July, 1920. Shortly after she had a single stage installed. She entered the Pittsburgh - Charleston trade in 1920 and in 1925 was taken to Point Pleasant, West Virginia and
. Louis. Later she was sold to a contractor, used as a quarter boat and finally sank about 1934. There was a bald eagle that preceded this boat. She was built in 1879 at Madison, Indiana. She was 202.3 x 30 x 5.4 feet. She ran the St. Louis - Clarksville trade until 1895. During the cyclone of 1896 she broke loose, struck the middle pier of the Eads bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, and sank.
October 29, 1937. - Lower end of cut where Ste. Genevieve began dredging. About station 295-00. Grand Tower Pile Dike and Revetment Contract, 1937-38: Woods Brothers Construction Company. Note: Photographs could not be taken at regular intervals because of adverse weather conditions.
Kentucky - James Moren - General John Coffee - Paducah - George Cowling - W. J. Jackson, Magazine clipping on back about Ayer & Lord Marine Ways in Paducah, Ky - a boat and barge construction and repair facility.