Mountain Boy (Packet, 1868-1872)

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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel

BOAT TYPE: Packet

BUILT: Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1868

FINAL DISPOSITION: Lost in ice 1872/1873

OWNERS: Kanawha River and Gallipolis Packet Company

OFFICERS & CREW: Captain James Newton (master, 1868, 1870); Captain R. L. Hamilton (master); J. A. McClurg (clerk); A. J. Bickett (clerk)

RIVERS: Ohio River; Kanawha River

OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4052; First home port Parkersburg, West Virginia; built for the Kanawha & Gallipolis Packet Company. Captain James Newton was first master in the Gallipolis-Charleston trade. He commanded her on a trip to Wheeling, West Virginia in March 1870 and transferred the West Virginia state capitol to Charleston. She was demolished in an ice gorge at Cincinnati in late December 1872 or 1873

PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At the Cincinnati waterfront; unknown boat in foreground near bridge, Mountain Boy and Wildwood in background

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Recollection Wisconsin
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Subjects
Sternwheel packets
Packets
Ohio River
Kanawha River
Ohio--Cincinnati
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