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Title

Steamboat Mattie Roberts

Creator

Marshall University

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Photo Identifier

1978.01.0236.01.10.06

Creation Date

1875

Description and Location

ca. 1875

Steamboat Mattie Roberts, a sternwheel packet boat built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863.

Ran Parkersburg to Gallipolis, and later trips to Nashville.

Sold to Capt. Taylor Higgins at Portsmouth, Ohio, where she was dismantled in 1875.

Transportation Category

River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharfboats)

Media Format

Photographic print copy