- of goods.
These flatboats could typically be
salvaged for
around $16 in New Orleans,
recouping some of the
initial investment.
Flatboats carried a variety...
- the
Mississippi River watershed. The
river was
filled with steamboats,
flatboats and
sailing ships.
Despite its role in the
slave trade, New
Orleans at...
- athletic, and
became adept at
using an ax. He and some
friends took
goods by
flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana,
where he
first witnessed slave markets. In March...
-
issued out of
Cincinnati were sp****.
Settler migration was
chiefly via
flatboat on the Ohio
River westerly, and by
wagon trails up the Wabash/White River...
- experimentation, and
agricultural wealth transported on the Ohio
River riverboats,
flatboats,
canal boats, and railroads.[citation needed] The
first violent conflicts...
- Garrett's mansion.
During the War of 1812,
Garrett shipped eight large flatboats stocked with food and
whiskey to the U.S. Navy in New Orleans.
Among those...
-
shipping goods eastward. The
easiest way to ship
produce was to use a
flatboat to
float it down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to the port of New Orleans...
-
cities in the
region were
connected via
wagon roads to
lowland areas, and
flatboats provided an
important means for
transporting goods out of the region....
- page 4 Milburn,
William Henry (1892). The Lance,
Cross and Canoe: The
Flatboat,
Rifle and
Plough in the
Valley of the Mississippi. N.D.
Thompson Publishing...
-
their possessions down the Ohio
River by
flatboat to
settle in
Breckinridge County. The
Bruner and
McDaniels flatboat was tied up just
below the
Falls of Sinking...
