Years before steamboats entered the inland waterways, ocean going brigs and sloops were built in the shipyards on the Ohio River. In the attached article, the brig St Clair was built in Marietta in 1801.
News clip of ocean going Ships built on the Ohio River
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In the Midland News on 12 Aug 1976, Gladys Hoover published a list of taxpayers in Georgetown and Smiths Ferry from 1876. A lookback in history an the Centennial Directory on the Biicentennial of the birth of our nation.
According to the directory Georgetown had a population of 297 in 1870. The value of real estate was $30,887; fifteen horses and mules $470; twenty-three cows $230. Each taxpayer’s occupation was specified. To me the interesting entries rather than boatman were one miner, one physician, one cigar maker, and several gentlemen.
Historically Yours 12Aug1976
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