Fun article from the St Louis Dispatch dated 10 Jul 1880.  The article looks back 28 years to identify the prominent steamboat captains of 1852.  One-hundred-sixty-six years ago.  Of the thirteen captains named in 1852, Capts John S McMillin and Adam Poe were residents of Georgetown, PA.  Both Georgetown captains were working on the Wabash River.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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