Tag: Steamboats on the Mississippi River
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The Burning of the Kate Adams 1
Taken from the St. Paul Daily Globe on December 24, 1888 Memphis, TN December 23: The elegant passenger steamer Kate Adams, running as a semi-weekly packet, between Memphis and Arkansas City, burned this morning near Commerce, Mississippi 40 miles south of this city. She was en route to Memphis and had about 200 people aboard,…
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The Glory of the Past, Steam Boat Day
Taken from the Historical Records Project #2224, Mrs. Hattie Johnson, Mrs. Louise Richards, Mrs E.H. Craves: circa 1939, I have added in some additions and corrections. Since Tunica County has a frontage of about sixty five miles on the Mississippi River, steamboats are a big part of her history. As many our older citizens recall…
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