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After the development of railroads, passenger traffic gradually switched to this faster form of transportation, but steamboats continued to serve Mississippi River commerce into the early 20th century. A small number of steamboats are still used for tourist excursions in the 21st century. Delta Queen at Paducah, Kentucky, 2007.
New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States.Her 1811–1812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ushered in the era of commercial steamboat navigation on the western and mid-western continental rivers.
Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.
Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Constructed of wood in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard [1] in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sultana was intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade.
The Oronoco (also Oronoko) was a steamboat that operated in the 1830s. It carried passengers and goods along the Mississippi River. On the morning of April 12, 1838, captained by John Crawford, The Oronoco, anchored in the river just across from the town of Princeton about 100 miles (160 km) north of Vicksburg. The steamboat stopped with the ...
Pages in category "Steamboats of the Mississippi River" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Steamboats also operated on the Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana. [citation needed] In April 1815, Captain Henry Miller Shreve was the first person to bring a steamboat, the Enterprise, up the Red River. [citation needed] By 1839 after Captain Henry Miller Shreve broke the Great Raft log jam had been 160 miles long on the river. [52]
The steamboat Pennsylvania was a side wheeler steamboat which suffered a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River and sank at Ship Island near Memphis, Tennessee, on June 13, 1858. Construction and career