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Author | : Robert Hugh McGrath |
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Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Download The Connecticut River Valley and the Connecticut River Valley Steamboat Company Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Randall Waterman |
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Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Connecticut River |
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Release | : 1831 |
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Author | : Erik Hesselberg |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493044508 |
Download Night Boat to New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers, unlike the tubby, wedding cake dowagers of Western waters, were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake as they cruised along. Departing each afternoon from State Street or Talcott Street wharf in Hartford, the “night boats” reached New York at daybreak, inaugurating a pattern of city commuting that continues to this day. Steamboating not only brought people and goods—Colt’s firearms and Essex’s pianos—down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America’s inland “Spa Culture” transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. No wonder crowds wept in the fall of 1931, when the last steamboats, made obsolete by the automobile, churned away from the dock and headed downriver—never to return.
Author | : Vermont |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Connecticut River |
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Author | : Melancthon Williams Jacobus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Connecticut River |
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Download The Connecticut River Steamboat Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Erik Hesselberg |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781493044498 |
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"A portrait of the steamboat era, when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge"--
Author | : Gabriel Farrell |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Steamboats |
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Download Capt. Samuel Morey who Built a Steamboat Fourteen Years Before Fulton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Norman J. Brouwer |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467122238 |
Download Steamboats on Long Island Sound Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Robert Fulton built the world's first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, but it was not until after the War of 1812 that these vessels entered service along the Long Island Sound. For 127 years, between 1815 and 1942, steamboats provided a link between New York and cities in southern New England, greatly reducing travel time. Steamboats served the Connecticut cities of Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Derby, New Haven, Hartford, New London, Norwich, and Stonington. They also linked New York to the Rhode Island cities of Newport, Bristol, and Providence as well as the southern Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford. The rapid expansion of industries in southern New England gave steamboats the additionally important role of transporting raw materials to mills and factories and their finished products to New York. Rivalries between steamboat services led to the construction of faster, larger, and more elegantly furnished boats, resulting in the "floating palaces" that were some of the largest and most majestic steamboats the world had ever seen.
Author | : Connecticut River Steam Boat Company |
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Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Steamboat lines |
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