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Photo Identifier

1978.01.0236.01.25.01

Creation Date

1900

Description and Location

ca. 1900

Steamboat Virginia, a sternwheel packet boat built Cincinnati, Ohio, 1895.

Ran Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.

When running on the Ohio during a flood in March of 1910, it became stuck in a cornfield at Willow Grove, W.Va.. On the next high water she was pulled out and taken to Pt. Pleasant, W.Va. for repairs.

Renamed the Steel City in 1912.

Transportation Category

River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharfboats)

Media Format

Photographic print copy

Keywords

steamboats, Virginia, Steel City, Willow Grove, W.Va., Ohio River

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