. La storia di Beaver County, Pennsylvania e la sua celebrazione del centenario,. l'anno successivo. Ella wasbuilt per il capitano John McMillen, e fu il primo battello a vapore per eseguire il blocco inil assedio di Vicksburg nel 1863. Circa lo stesso tempo di Steamboat Yorktown era builthere per il Capitano Giacobbe Poe di Georgetown. Da Lloyds Steamboat Directory e disastri, 1856, che contiene un elenco di boatsafloat sulle rive occidentali, si ottengono le seguenti ulteriori nomi di piroscafi costruito inBeaver contea: Gladiator, costruita in libertà nel 1850: tonnellaggio 236. Jane Franklin 1851- 197. Governatore Meigs i8<;i

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. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration, . the year following. She wasbuilt for Captain John McMillen, and she was the first steamboat to run the blockade atthe siege of Vicksburg in 1863. About the same time the steamboat Yorktown was builthere for Captain Jacob Poe of Georgetown. From Lloyds Steamboat Directory and Disasters, 1856, which contains a list of boatsafloat on the western rivers, we get the following additional names of steamboats built inBeaver County: Gladiator, built at Freedom in 1850: tonnage 236. Jane Franklin 1851- 197. Governor Meigs i8<;i: 145. Winchester 1851: 222. Major Darian 1S52: 199. Monticello 1852: 117. John Simonds 1852: 1024. Washington City 1852: 282. W. T. Yeatman 1852: 165. Argyle 1853: 319. Crystal Palace 1853- 541- Magnolia 1853: 120. Time and Tide i8S3 = 131- San Antonia 1854: I2g. Convoy 1854: 123- Endeavor 1854: 200. Fairfield 1854: 159. Ranchero 1854- 207. Jacob Poe 1855: 201. Iowa 1855: 57- Equator, Beaver 1853: 62. Huron Christlers Ldg. 1851: 168. Obion 1851: 62. Bedford 1852: 181. History of Beaver County 301 The claim made in the foregoing editorial article, viz., thatmany of the boats, both keel-boats and steamboats, which werelisted as being built at Pittsburg, were in reality of BeaverCounty manufacture, finds confirmation in the following extractfrom a letter written by Marcus T. C. Gould in December, 1835, to the editor of Atkinsons Casket, published in Philadelphia: I shall now be better able to make you comprehend the reason of myspeaking of Pittsburgh in connection with this neighborhood (the Falls ofBeaver); for in fact the $70, 000 worth of keel boats mentioned in mylast, though constructed and launched in Beaver County, are most ofthem purchased by Pittsburgers, and not unfrequently built by theirexpress orders, and sent to their city to receive their finish. And as itrespects the new Steam Boats which hail from that city, a very con-siderable number of them are in fact built and

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