A rare photograph of the str Amelia Poe. A fun story. Follow the link.
Posts Tagged ‘thomas s calhoon’
A Rare Photograph
Sunday, February 27th, 2011More Golden Highway 1866
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Thomas S Calhoon, as first clerk of the str Amelia Poe, sighted 16 steamboats on his trip up river and 30 boats down river. From St Louis, the trip to Ft Benton was 72 ½ days; down 57 days with three days to discharge freight and passengers.
Thomas S Calhoon left Georgetown, Pa on 12 Mar 1866 and returned to his home on 19 Aug 1866. That was 160 days on the river = almosst half the year. He took approximately three weeks in Georgetown before he shipped out on 5 Oct 1866.
I have added his journal entries for the down river trip to the page TS Calhoon’s Book 1866.
The Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010My first biography of a packet line has been loaded. The Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line, organized by Thomas S Calhoon and Jackman T Stockdale, was arguably the most famous and luxurious line on the Ohio River – ever!
Pittsburgh Cincinnati Packet Line Postcard (F Nash Collection)
Georgetown Cemetery
Monday, November 9th, 2009I found a document listing the names of the people buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Names and dates will be entered into an MS Office Excel 2003 spreadsheet so that the data can be searched and sorted. The earliest burial date listed was 1795. On 24 Apr 1968 the Georgetown Cemetery Maintenance Association was chartered according to the document. The document is 30 pages. It is unsigned.
Oddly the first reported burial in the Georgetown Cemetery was James Clark. He was reported to have been the last white man killed by Indians in Beaver County. In 1792 he was shot in what would later become Smith’s Ferry. That burial predates the establishment of the cemetery according to the found document.
For thoses of you who dig graveyards (sorry about that) Georgetown Cemetery is the place to go to research the names of Georgetown people since the late 1790′s.
Little Known Georgetown
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009Last Tuesday, I made some time to visit the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. None of the center associates knew the borough of Georgetown, PA. So I have provided a MapQuest view of Georgetown’s relationship to Ohio and WV and other river towns, such as Beaver, Aliquippa, Sewickley, and Pittsburgh.
Until the end of the packet era, Georgetown was a “rivertown”. It had a buzz of activity associated with packets and riverboats. Today it has an old-fashioned charm. Compared with the fast pace of the info age, it has an unusual quietness in a pleasing way.
- Georgeotwn, Beaver CO, PA MapQuest 2009
