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The Cornell Steamboat Company was founded by Thomas Cornell (1814–1890) in Rondout, New York in the late 1840s, as a major passenger ship and cargo company. Thomas Cornell was President of Cornell Steamboat Company from 1865 to 1870. [1] [2] [3]
The little sidewheeler Norwich, (160 feet × 25'3", 255 gross tons), was built in New York in 1836 by Lawrence & Sneeden of New York for the New York and Norwich Steamboat Co. Named for the City of Norwich, Connecticut, she was not big enough to compete with the large steamboats coming into service on the sound, and was sold to the New York ...
The house is now a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) New York State Historic Site and a National Historic Landmark. In 1788, Clermont Manor was organized as the town of Clermont. Clermont was the port of registry of Robert Fulton 's first steamboat, co-owned by Livingston, which was called the North River .
The PS General Slocum [note 1] was an American sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891.During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions.
In 1911 Clermont was moved to Poughkeepsie, New York and served Day Line as a New York state historic ship attraction. The company eventually lost interest in the steamboat as a money-making attraction and placed her in a tidal lagoon on the inner side of their landing at Kingston Point, New York.
New York was an American passenger-cargo sidewheel steamboat built in 1836 for service on Long Island Sound.When new, she was the largest steamboat yet to operate on the route between New York and New Haven, Connecticut, and was one of the largest Sound steamboats of her day.
The Clermont State Historic Site, also known as the Clermont estate, the Clermont Manor or just Clermont, is a New York State Historic Site in southwestern Columbia County, New York, United States. It protects the former estate of the Livingston family, seven generations of whom lived on the site over more than two centuries.
In 1803 the second bank chartered in Albany, the New York State Bank, opened. In 1807, Robert Fulton initiated a steamboat line from New York to Albany; this was the first commercially viable steamboat in the world. In 1804 Aaron Burr, who had a law office in Albany at 24 South Pearl Street, [38] came into conflict with Alexander Hamilton.