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PAT CLEBURNE
PAT CLEBURNE: Boat 4398 Way’s Packet Directory page 363. (Named after Confederate General). Side Wheel Packet, wood hull, built Cincinnati Ohio 1870. A fair sized boat, dimensions not at hand. Engines 20’s – 7 ft. Four boilers each 37” by … Continue reading
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PHIL ALLIN
PHIL ALLIN: Boat 4476 Way’s Packet Directory page 370. Side Wheel Packet, wood hull, built Memphis Tenn. 1871, 463 tons, 181 x 38 x 6. Engines 22’s – 7 ft. Three boilers. Ran Memphis – Friar’s Point. Capt. James Lee. … Continue reading
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Old Spoons
These spoons were dug up by my friend Ed Provine who along with a gang of diggers dug large numbers of old privets, cisterns, and wells in the downtown area of Memphis when urban renewal removed hundreds of old homes … Continue reading
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Cotton Picking Season
The Memphis Commercial Appeal Mid-South Memories Saturday October 22, 2011 reported 125 years ago October 22, 1886 the following: “Cottenmen are confident now that Memphis will receive more than 600,000 bales of cotton this season.” On October 22, 1911 the Commercial … Continue reading
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Captain James Lee and Penniah Gibson descendants
James Lee Sr and Penniah Gibson descendants James Lee Sr. born in 1808 died in 1889 married Penniah Gibson in 1830 together they had 3 sons two who lived into adulthood. James Lee Jr born in 1832 and Samuel Stacker … Continue reading
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Record cotton delivered to Memphis Oct 19 1886
The Memphis Commercial Appeal Mid-South Memories section reported that on October 20, 1886 the following: “More cotton was received in Memphis yesterday than any other city in the country, New Orleans and New York not excepted. The CHICKASAW (Lee Line) alone … Continue reading
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Ruth
RUTH: Boat 4880 Way’s Packet Directory page 406. 160 x 31.5, 5 x 5. Stern Wheel, Packet, Wood Hull, built Paducah Kentucky 1888. Built for Capt. W.P. Hall, Memphis and ran Vicksburg – Greenville. Crew in 1900: Capt. Charles Nichols, … Continue reading
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Chickasaw
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
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Lee Line serving dish circa 1875
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
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