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The Quad Cities is a region of five cities (originally Tri-Cities, later four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf (the fifth to be included) in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline (the fourth to be included) in northwestern Illinois.
Collection of Articles & List of Crew, Orchestra & Passengers of & from the Columbia Riverboat Disaster, July 5, 1918 - August 14, 2000 — on Tazewell County, Illinois Genealogy Trails; Zurski, Ken (2012). The Wreck of the Columbia: A Broken Boat, a Town's Sorrow & the End of the Steamboat Era on the Illinois River. Chicago: Amika Press.
The Quad Cities again celebrated the 150th anniversary of the bridge completion from Thursday September 14 to Sunday September 17 2006 in a festival that included "steam locomotive excursions, riverboat rides, canoe and kayak races, a story-telling festival and a unique 'ghost bridge' display". [32]
Lone Star came off the ways at Lyons, Iowa in 1869. Originally the boat was a wood-burning side-wheeler, operated as a short-run packet. In 1890 she was remodeled and reconfigured as a stern-wheeler, for use as towboat. Lone Star was remodeled a second time in 1899 at the Kahlke Boat Yards in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1922 she was again altered ...
A riverboat casino is a type of casino on a riverboat found in several states in the United States with frontage on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, or along the Gulf Coast. Several states authorized this type of casino in order to enable gambling but limit the areas where casinos could be constructed; it was a type of legal fiction ...
Maid of Iowa was a steamboat first owned and captained by Dan Jones. It was first launched in 1842, and was used as a passenger ship on the Mississippi River . The boat is best known for transporting British Mormon converts to settle in Nauvoo, Illinois .
Many large riverboats were working on the Murray, but now a lower water level is stopping them. The Kalgan River in Western Australia has had two main riverboats, the Silver Star, 1918 to 1935, would lower her funnel to get under the low bridge. Today, the Kalgan Queen riverboat takes tourists up the river to taste the local wines. She lowers ...
The city is sited on a strategic bend in the river that allowed it to control river traffic. [23] Four miles west, as the river turns southward, another major tributary, the Embarras River joins. Past Vincennes, the Wabash is joined by its largest tributary, the White River at Mount Carmel, Illinois , significantly increasing its size, to over ...