miles above New Orleans on September 16, 1887, a lugger in charge of two boys attempted to cross her bow. The mast of the lugger struck the stage of the Baton Rouge, the lugger capsized and one of the boys drowned. The City of Baton Rouge sank at Hermitage, Louisiana, at 3:00 P. M. on December 12, 1890 on the same snag and at the same spot where the Paris C. Brown sunk in 1889.
Sternwheeler ferry City of Baton Rouge, built in 1916. Today she serves as a landing boat for the MV Twilight in Le Claire, Iowa. Her pilothouse and stacks were lost in a tornado.
The City of Baton Rouge, another Anchor Liner, was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1881. Captain Horace Bixby was her master. She was nearly lost on her maiden trip when she stuck on the Louisville falls and stayed there for three weeks. She sank at Hermitage, Louisiana, at 3:00 PM, December 12, 1890 on the same snag in the same spot that sank the Paris C. Brown the year prior or in early