A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley With Special Reference to Its Wa
A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley With Special Reference to Its Wa
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
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List, and others, some of them southern sympa- thizers, incorporated the Union line of packets for the purpose of giving daily communications between Wheeling and Louisville. The boats used were "the finest that ever plied the waters of the upper Ohio in the line arrangement, " their average capacity being in 188 The "Pennsylvania" was of four hundred eighty-six tons burden, the "Crystal Palace, " the largest of the line, of five hundred forty-one tons. See Pittsburgh Gazette, February ii, 1854...; idem, February 18, 1854. RAILROAD VERSUS RIVER 195 excess of eight hundred tons. They were the "Thomas Swann, " named for the president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; the "Alvin Adams, " bearing the name of the founder of the Adams Express Company; the "David White, " named for a prominent resident of Madison, Indiana; and the "Falls City, " the "Balti- more, " the "Virginia, " and the "Forest City, " each of which bore a name that appealed to the South from which they expected to draw their chief patronage.
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