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 CHICKASAW: Boat 1010 Way’s Packet Directory page 85. Sternwheeler, Packet, wood hull, built Pittsburgh, Pa. 1883, 185 x 38 x 6. Engines, 16’s – 7 foot, three boilers each 48” x 26 ft, seven flues. Designed to carry 1650 bales … Continue reading →

  This serving dish is in the collection of the Woodruff Fountain House 680 Adams Ave. Memphis Tennessee. Likely there are only few of these serving dishes in existence since the Lee Line wharf boat burned sometime in the mid 1920′s … Continue reading →

 The Lee Line carried freight for Anderson Tully a land and timber company.  Anderson Tully is still in operation and still owns vast tracts of timber land.  Other Bill of Lading showed the Lee Line hauling railroad iron for Anderson … Continue reading →

 ORA LEE: Stern Wheel Packet wood hull Way’s Packet Directory page 357. Built by Howard Shipyard, Jeffersonville Ind. 1891, 140 x 32, 4 x 4. Owned by the Lee Line , Memphis, and ran short trades. In July 1900 hauled … Continue reading →

James LEE, Jr., vice-president of the First National Bank, and of the Taxing District of Memphis, came to this city in 1858, and located here permanently in 1860. He practiced law with Valentine & Lee; Chambers, Lee & Warinner, and … Continue reading →

 During the early 1900’s pocket mirrors such as this one were a farily common way of advertising.  Coca-Cola was one of the most prolific distributors of these small mirrors.

              This is one of a few postcards of the HARRY LEE formerly CITY OF WHEELING.  From the looks of both pictures, the HARRY LEE looks more like a work boat since the pineapple tops on … Continue reading →

The Memphis Commercial Appeal’s Mid South Memories section of the September 6 2011 edition reported that 100 years ago on this day the following:  Rebuilding of the Lee Line steamer Eleonore badly damaged by fire this week while moored at … Continue reading →

 The Vicksburg Natchez Packet Co. was a competitor of the Lee Line.   Obviously a young man with serious but nervous intent crafted this expression of his love for the object of his affections.  Since it was not postmarked, one wonders … Continue reading →