Why did I chose to write about steamboats? Maybe it is a perverse romanticism. Or a passion about the monumentally unimportant.
This website is my memorial to the riverboat owners and captains who steamed from Georgetown, PA. Their lives, like everything else, will fade from our memory and grow more and more dim with the lapse of time. This site was designed to tell their stories and preserve their memory. If the stories reach numerous people interested in our inland rivers history, they will commemorate the lives of my ancestors and the lives of other rivermen. Men who pitted their skills against the river’s dangers. Men who built boats, ran boats, and made history.
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