The Valley Queen was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1889 for Captain Geo. W. Rea and others. Her hull was 196.5 feet by 36 feet by 5.5 feet. She had two boilers, each 46 inches by 28 feet. Her machinery came from the La Belle and had cylanders 20.5 inches in diameter with 6.5-foot strock. She had cotton guards and carried 900 tons. This was a New Orleans-Shreveport packet from 1889 to 1894
