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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.
SS Admiral was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River from the Port of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1940 to 1978. The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino, [1] also known as Admiral Casino, [2] in the 1990s. The boat was dismantled for scrap ...
History; United States; Name: Arabia: Owner: Captain William Terrill and William Boyd: Operator: William Terrill: Route: Ohio River, Mississippi River, and the Missouri River: Way number: ed: Laid down: 1853: Out of service: September 5, 1856: Identification: In 1897, there was an 'expedition' to the buried ship to recover a large amount of ...
Allen, Luther Prentice (1901),Genealogy and history of the Shreve family from 1641, Greenfield, Illinois: Privately printed, 672 pages; reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, Massachusetts, 1999, ISBN 0-7404-1002-4; Captain Henry Miller Schreve. A Contribution by Judge Samuel Treat of St. Louis, Mo. (From the Democratic Review, February 1848)
website, includes the Mississippi River Museum about the natural, cultural and maritime history of the Mississippi River, aquariums, observation platform, nature trail and river cruise Tupelo Automobile Museum: Tupelo Lee North Automotive Over 100 antique, classic and collectible automobiles Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum
The site, located in Hartford, Illinois, commemorates Camp River Dubois, the camp of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from December 1803 to May 1804. The site is National Trail Site #1 on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and is located directly off the Confluence Bike Trail, part of the Confluence Greenway.
Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck) [1] [2] [3] (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), called "king of the keelboaters", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
In 1816 U.S. Government surveyor John C. Sullivan surveyed a line stretching 100 miles (160 km) north from the confluence of the Kansas River with the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri and then back east to the Des Moines River. The distance matched the rapids but when Missouri entered the Union in 1820 its constitution instead referred ...