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Photo Identifier
1983.0236.13.68.01
Creation Date
1889
Description and Location
ca. 1889
Daily packet steamboat Minnie Bay, a sidewheel packet boat built Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, 1883.
Built for the Bay brothers and ran Portsmouth to Proctorville, and Parkersburg to Gallipolis.
Named for George Bay’s daughter.
Snagged and sunk 1889.
Transportation Category
River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharfboats)
Media Format
Photographic print copy
Keywords
steamboats, Minnie Bay, Ohio River, George Bay
