Recently while updating my steamboat file, I sorted the data using the keys “Place of Build” and the “Year of Build”. My results ordered by the number of boats built in a city are listed in the following table.
Eighty-eight percent of the boats owned and operated by men from Georgetown were built in PA boatyards; seventeen percent in Pittsburgh although some of the boats built in nearby towns were “finished” in Pittsburgh. Most of the boats ordered in Ohio were the luxurious packets expressly designed and built for the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line.
Georgetown Steamboats
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Number of Boats |
City/Town | State |
Range of Years |
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11 |
Pittsburgh | 1843-1886 | |
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10 |
Freedom | 1844-1864 | |
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9 |
California | 1854-1877 | |
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6 |
Cincinnati | OH | 1864-1897 |
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5 |
Brownsville | 1848-1863 | |
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4 |
McKeesport | 1853-1868 | |
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3 |
Shousetown | 1850-1870 | |
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2 |
Elizabeth | 1847-1854 | |
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2 |
Glasgow | 1846-1848 | |
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1 |
Belle Vernon | 1857 | |
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1 |
Fallston | 1837 | |
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1 |
Fishing Creek | WV | 1861 |
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1 |
Georgetown | 1865 | |
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1 |
Harmar | OH | 1890 |
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1 |
Industry | 1848 | |
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1 |
Line Island | 1852 | |
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1 |
Smith’s Ferry | 1845 | |
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1 |
West Elizabeth | 1851 | |
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