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	Rivermen & Riverboats
		Small flatboats could be as little as twenty feet long and ten feet wide, but the large ones were sometimes sixty feet long and twenty feet wide.
		Flatboats on the Ohio River carried thousands of immigrants to new settlements in the Midwest during the early 1800's.
		Flatboats are large, raftlike barges used to haul freight and passengers.
	groups.msn.com /RivermenRiverboats/flatboats.msnw (403 words)

	SIUC archaeologists salvage 1800s-era flatboat
		Because flatboats couldn't navigate upriver, they were broken up and sold for lumber when they reached their destination.
		Robert H. Swenson, SIUC assistant professor of architectural studies who assisted in the project, said flatboats are historically important because the wood from many of the flatboats became the building material for many of the first land structures -- the first architectural features in the region.
		Here, the flatboat is being cleaned of mud and debris and the crew is working to fit together timbers that have come loose.
	news.siu.edu /news/August02/082702b2026.html (918 words)

	Taming the Wilderness
		Soon, larger craft were plying the waters as keelboats, flatboats, barges, and the kings of the rivers, steamboats, became part of the American scene.
		Flatboats carried much of the Midwest's agricultural produce to market in the early decades of the 19th century.
		For a while flatboats and steamboats shared the same waters, but the heyday of the flatboat ended in the 1840s when the speed, economy, and size of steamboats wrested control of the waterways.
	www.connerprairie.org /historyonline/tamriver.html (872 words)

	Lost City of Martinsville
		This city, at one time, could boast of her 300 residences, her fleets of flatboats that plied the river, her great warehouses and immense shipping, and her 1,000 souls within her limits.
		Flatboats were built, and these valuable commodities were shipped by water to New Orleans.
		One by one, the fleet of flatboats sank to the bottom of the river to rot.
	kentuckyexplorer.com /nonmembers/8-lostcity.html (921 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Gold Rush
		A variety of tools were used to wash these deposits and extract the fine gold particles.
		The river bottoms were very attractive places to search for gold; miners frequently drifted flatboats into the Chestatee and Etowah rivers and dredged up rich sand and gravel.
		Placer mining was the most popular type among the early gold diggers because it required very little capital.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-785&pid=s-60 (1487 words)

	Ohio River flatboat: victim of Southernmost Illinois Pirates?
		We may never know the cause of the flatboat’s sinking and abandonment If it was due to accident, one would expect that its wooden planks and artifacts would have been salvaged.
		While flatboats apparently had accidents and sank on their own, this wreck is so near Plug’s headquarters at the mouth of Cache River that its sinking here could well be the result of plundering by his gang.
		It is hoped that some day the artifacts from this flatboat, if not the remnants of the boat itself, will be on display for the public to view.
	www.southernmostillinoishistory.net /flatboat.htm (1795 words)

	Illinoistown/steamboats; Steam power comes to Illinoistown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Flatboats, pirogues, and other human powered vessels did not disappear with the arrival of steamboats.
		Many farmers, lumberjacks, and merchants, still built rafts and flatboats, allowing the current to move their goods south.
		However, between 1820 and 1860 the number of steamboats increased a hundredfold and more goods were delivered via steamboats traveling north and south than were floated downstream on rafts.
	archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Cyberia/RiverWeb/Projects/Ambot/TECH/TECH2.htm (426 words)

	Flatboats Brought Early Settlers Down River To Ohio Valley
		The original flatboats were at first only from four to six feet in width, but soon were made much larger.
		These craft were useful in their own way, but the standard flatboat had preference over the others because of its size and practicality.
		They also consisted of a rudder and a short oar in front known as the "gouger." A "hawser" was a strong rope, which was mounted to a reel on board that, could be attached to a tree stump on shore, which in turn allowed the boat to be wound ashore.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ohwarren/Bogan/bogan054.htm (1438 words)

	WQED Multimedia: History Series: Rivers and Valleys: Rolling on the Rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Inexpensive flatboats, essentially large (20-100 feet long and 12-20 feet wide) rafts with a shelter on deck, were powered solely by river current and steered with a 30-40 foot oar at the back.
		Flatboat in the foreground is is dependent mostly on the current to move downstream while the keelboat can be poled down and upstream.
		The energy that moved the boats on the river was human energy, in the form of men using long poles to propel and steer.
	www.wqed.org /erc/pghist/units/rivers/rivers2.shtml (1715 words)

	Guide to Early (1760-1861) Records: Port of N.O.
		Registers of flatboats, barges, rafts, and steamboats in the port of New Orleans, 1806-1823.
		Reports of flatboats arriving at the port of the Second Municipality, 1845-1852.
		On May 12, 1836 the Second Municipality Council passed an ordinance providing for the appointment of a Wharfinger "for the landing of the Second Municipality." He was to direct the landing of all ships in the port and perform other duties specified by that and later ordinances.
	nutrias.org /~nopl/inv/neh/nehqn.htm (1790 words)

	Vessel Types on Minnesota's Inland Waters
		Most flatboats never returned after descending the river; often, they were dismantled and used or sold for lumber at their downstream destination.
		Private flatboats: Used to transport people and their belongings, commodities, or produce to downstream markets, mills, or settlement opportunities.
		One of the last current-driven ferries (i.e., a swing ferry) to operate in Minnesota and on the Mississippi River was at the Clearwater crossing in central Minnesota.
	www.mnhs.org /places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/incraft.html (1689 words)

	Transportation on the Ohio River
		Most of the early settlers came to this area by flatboat on the Ohio River.
		Many of the first citizens were flatboat operators.
		Flatboats were only able to float down stream, then they were taken apart and used for firewood.
	www.msdmv.k12.in.us /hedges/hedgesweb/canaltrek/rivertrans4chl.htm (188 words)

	Ohio River Traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Later keelboats, flatboats, barges, packets, steamboats, and even gunboats were significant phenomena in the development of the Ohio River valley.
		With the advent of steamboats, the flatboats disappeared from the river.
		A pilot and three or four men constituted the crew of a flatboat trip taking three weks to three months according to the river stage, potential hazards due to accidents and delays.
	bhs.broo.k12.wv.us /brk-hist/rivtraff.htm (690 words)

	Ancestors Of George & Hazel Mullins: Chapter 10 - Osyka
		For 50 years flatboats and keelboats from as far away as the Ohio Valley had been floating down the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans.
		Flatboats were really large rafts, from 20 to 100 feet long, which were stacked high with barrels of farm products.
		In 1846 2,792 keelboats and flatboats arrived in New Orleans.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~pmullins/chapter10.htm (1962 words)

	Arkansas Stories, Arkansas studies Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the end of a trip flatboats were usually broken up and their wood used for building material.
		Unlike flatboats that were basically square or rectangular in shape, these boats were pointed on the front and rear.
		Keelboats had an advantage over flatboats because they could be used both down and upstream.
	www.arkansasstories.com /willresources.htm (1055 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Ohio River Museum, the, Marietta, OH
		The first white men on the river were French and British fur traders, who bartered trinkets, blankets, muskets, and tomahawk pipes for the valuable furs so readily available on the frontier.
		Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, slightly modified flatboats also carried produce from Ohio farms downstream toward New Orleans, stopping at ports until all the goods were sold.
		Also on the grounds are a full-scale reproduction of a flatboat and the oldest steamboat pilothouse known to exist - that of the Tell City, built in 1885.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/mr/45750.htm (1051 words)

	Sight Lines: River Relic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This past summer, when water levels were low, SIUC faculty and students photographed, mapped, and restored part of a circa-1800 flatboat discovered by local resident John Schwegman in the Ohio River near the tiny town of Olmstead, Ill.
		The flatboat era on the Ohio River began about 1780, he says, and continued through about 1900, when the locks on the river forced the clumsy boats into oblivion.
		Robert Swenson, an assistant professor of architectural studies who assisted in the project, says flatboats are historically important because their wood often was reused to construct many of the first buildings—the first architectural features—in the region.
	www.siu.edu /~perspect/02_fall/sightlines.html (338 words)

	Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 6)
		Manually powered flatboats were the primary means available to farmers for shipping their goods (Figure 15).
		Given their small size and light draft, flatboats could navigate narrow and shallow streams, allowing farmers in the remote interior access to the Ohio River trade artery.
		Farmers also had the option of continuing to ship their goods downstream by flatboat, then making the return journey upstream via steamboat; greatly reducing travel time and permitting three or four trips a year to the New Orleans markets instead of only one.
	www.nps.gov /libo/hrs/hrs6.htm (2476 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: NAVIGATION ON THE RIO GRANDE
		They placed a steamboat on the river, probably to determine the limits of navigation upriver from Matamoros, but were forced to suspend their project in 1829 and to transfer their Tamaulipas grant to Henry Austin.
		The flatboat trade lasted into the twentieth century; it centered on Laredo, where coal from the mines upriver was flatboated down to Matamoros.
		Barges were used even after a railroad was built to the mines, but the high cost of pulling the boats upriver eventually led to their discontinuance.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/NN/etn1.html (1083 words)

	Paddlewheel Riverboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As the Westward movement of the new Americans began, the Ohio River and its tributaries were full of flatboats carrying entire families and all their belongings down stream to their new homes.
		Seeing a market for all sorts of goods, men built flatboats and loaded them with items needed by the settlers, and sold them as they proceeded down the river.
		Since it was almost impossible to get the flatboats back up the river, and lumber was needed by the settlers, the boats were also sold.
	www.cemr.wvu.edu /~venable/asa/carl1.htm (3383 words)

	Mississippi River Flatboatmen
		In stretches of the river where navigation was easy, it was common to find two or more flatboats lashed together; thus, fewer men dealt with the navigational chores.
		One of the crew is enjoying a nip of river comfort and another is definitely comfortable from a number of nips.
		As the other crew members tend to the safe navigation of their craft, the flatboats will continue to float peacefully in the moonlight to their down river destination.
	www.garylucy.com /flatboatmen.html (361 words)

	Young Kentucky History
		It was the broad highway from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, from the eastern settlements of the coast to the Mississippi Valley.
		First French fur traders and trappers followed the path to the interior, then the flatboat and keelboats of the first settlers, and finally great steamboats went up and down the river.
		Flatboats, which were simple flat-bottomed rafts with shacks built on top, were a cheap way to carry families of settlers floating down the river.
	www.speedmuseum.org /young_kentucky.html (5404 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mike Fink (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was born probably at the frontier post of Pittsburgh, took part in the wars against the Native Americans of the Ohio region, and subsequently became a keelboatman on the flatboats of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
		He accompanied the first Ashley expedition (1822) up the Missouri and was killed in a shooting scrape somewhere near the mouth of the Yellowstone River.
		Stories of flatboat life are associated with his name in a manner similar to the Paul Bunyan stories of the lumber camps.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Fink-Mik.html (243 words)

	Pioneer Adventures
		We are recruiting crew for one-week segments, perhaps longer, for the flatboat Living Waters for a two-year trip to New Orleans, 2003-2005.
		The job of the flatboat is to visit towns to welcome visitors aboard in port to show them how life was like 200 years ago.
		The schedule is set for the spring 2005 flatboat trip from Nashville to Natchez.
	groups.msn.com /PioneerAdventures/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us (377 words)

	Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The French were interested primarily in trade but other Europeans who came later wanted to settle the land.
		They came down the river by thousands in flatboats, keelboats and later vessels powered by steam.
		The Ohio River is still an important commercial waterway.” (Batson, 2001) People used flat boats and keel boats to travel and to hail lumber.
	www.promotega.org /csu30026/boats.htm (289 words)

	John P. Parker, Conductor, on the Underground Railroad
		The mills would turn out the parts, so all that would have to be done in the spring and summer was to assemble the parts into flatboats.
		The flatboats have disappeared years ago, not even a steamboat can be seen.
		That group of able financiers and businessmen are gone and with one exception not a kith or kin of those busy men is left in town.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6232 (2563 words)

	The Smoky Mountain News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But there have been other sorts of navigation involving flatboats, keelboats, mule boats, whaling boats, and even steamboats.
		The 19th century was the flatboat, keelboat, and mule boat era on the lower Little Tennessee River.
		Flatboats had sturdy wood bottoms designed for heavy loads, and whatever superstructure best suited the needs of passengers and cargo.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/12_01/12_19_01/back_then.shtml (970 words)

	Ferries of Cobb County
		Last of the physical barriers protecting the Cherokee Indians from the white settlers, flatboats start moving men across the river as early as 1819.
		By the time of the sixth Georgia Land Lottery in 1832, the Chattahoochee flatboats are a booming venture.
		Now called ferries, these were among the first commercially viable businesses in the northern tier of the state.
	ngeorgia.com /feature/ferriesofcobbcounty.html (1048 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One hundred flatboats were made here in one year for Vevay, Indiana, to float hay down the river.
		The entire riverfront was filled with flatboats loading cargoes for New Orleans and all waypoints.
		A woolen mill made most of the jeans for the town and the flatboats....
	www.ripleyohio.net /parkeronripley.htm (343 words)

	Arkansas Stories, Arkansas studies Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He loved to be on the dock when the flatboats and keelboats came in.
		He helped the flatboats and keelboats when they came to the dock to unload.
		The flatboats came floating down the river – the White River.
	www.arkansasstories.com /willread.htm (771 words)

	Gaylord Opryland : Dining & Activities : Delta River Flatboat Tours
		No matter what the weather is like outside, it’s always the perfect temperature to take a Delta River Flatboat down our scenic indoor river.
		Step aboard and gently wind your way through our lush four and a half acre indoor garden while a guide offers unique facts about the Delta's plants and fish.
		Our fleet of five Mississippi-style flatboats carries 25 passengers each on leisurely trips of about 15 minutes.
	www.gaylordhotels.com /gaylordopryland/dining_activities/delta.cfm (136 words)

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