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Author | : C. Seymour Bullock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
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Genre | : Steam-navigation |
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Author | : Erik Hesselberg |
Publisher | : |
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 | : Erik Hesselberg |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493044508 |
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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 | : Melancthon Williams Jacobus |
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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 | : William Augustus Mowry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Steamboats |
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Download Who Invented the American Steamboat? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Daniel Franklin Secomb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Centenarians |
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Author | : Carl Daniel Lane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 1973 |
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ISBN | : 9780871061096 |
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Author | : Wick Griswold |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-10-05 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1439670498 |
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Shipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of the lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Their accomplishments include building the first warship of the Connecticut navy and the world's first submarine. They also served as packet ship captains, navigators and skilled crew members who crossed the Atlantic. The Essex area was also home to dedicated craftsmen who produced some of the finest yachts ever built. Noted historians Wick Griswold and Ruth Major detail one village's important role in American maritime history.
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Edwin L. Dunbaugh |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1992-04-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Download Night Boat to New England, 1815-1900 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Taking the subject of much lore as the topic of his book, Dunbaugh has written a carefully researched, comprehensive history of the overnight steamboat on Long Island Sound. In the nineteenth century, these steamboats provided the major means of transportation from New York to ports in southern New England or from Boston north to ports on the coast of Maine. Earlier accounts have either focused on the lore or been heavy with statistical data. Dunbaugh here provides a readable narrative history based on solid research. The book's approach is chronological, discussing the early steamboat era, 1815-1835, in the first chapter and the feeder lines developing with the advent of the railroad in chapter 2. Chapter 3 covers the Vanderbilt era of the 1840s, while the next chapter turns to the Great Fall River Line, 1847-1854. Chapter 5 discusses the years from 1854 to 1861, a period of stability, and chapter 6 covers the Civil War years. Chapters on the era of Fisk and Gould and the Depression and Recovery of 1873-1880 follow. The final chapter covers the last decade of the independent lines and of the century. This volume will be of interest to historians specializing in the history of technology, business, or economic history--as well as to those interested in the history of steamboat transportation.