{"id":1672,"date":"2012-07-25T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2012-07-25T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T20:17:14","slug":"lee-line-charter-of-city-of-savannah-oct-1894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Lee Line Charter of CITY OF SAVANNAH OCT. 1894"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Way’s Packet Directory records the CITY\u00a0OF SAVANNAH as\u00a0chartered to the Lee Line in September 1895.\u00a0 The\u00a0above charter agreement shows the charter occuring October 11, 1894.\u00a0 Robert E Lee became general manager of the Lee Line in 1894 taking over from his father James Lee\u00a0Jr.\u00a0 In 1894 the JAMES LEE (first) was retired from service which leads me to believe that the CITY OF SAVANNAH was chartered to fill in for the JAMES LEE until a similar size boat could be purchased.\u00a0 Way’s mentions\u00a0the CITY OF SAVANNAH was chartered to run out of Memphis.\u00a0 The St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co. was a competitor to the Lee Line.<\/p>\n

Of interest is the lettering on the stationary “THE BEST WAY TO THE WORLD’S FAIR.”<\/p>\n

This document was salvaged from the Lee Building downtown Memphis by my brother George in the early 1980’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Way’s Packet Directory records the CITY\u00a0OF SAVANNAH as\u00a0chartered to the Lee Line in September 1895.\u00a0 The\u00a0above charter agreement shows the charter occuring October 11, 1894.\u00a0 Robert E Lee became general manager of the Lee Line in 1894 taking over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-qY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}