The Tell City steamboat moored at Mauckport, Indiana

Description:	The steamboat Tell City moored at the wharf boat at Mauckport, Indiana. Freight and passenger boats loaded and unloaded at Mauckports wharf boat during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For many years, the wharf master was George Sherman. At the time this picture was taken, the Tell City was unloading freight onto the wharf boat. The people at the center of the photograph have been identified as Gus Jenkins, his daughter Olga Jenkins, and Charles Foster. The Mauckport wharf boat was destroyed by river ice flow in 1905. The Tell City was built in 1889 for the Louisville and Evansville Packet Co. The vessel ran between the two cities until 1916 when she was sold for trade in the Charleston, West Virginia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region. The Tell City sank at Hocking, Ohio in 1917 after a swift current pulled her into a pier and knocked a hole in her hull.
Origin:	1903
Source:	http://cdm17251.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17251coll21/id/92
Collection:	Transportation
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Copyright:	This image may be printed or downloaded by individuals, schools or libraries for study, research or classroom teaching without permission. For other uses contact: genealogy@hcpl.lib.in.us
Geography:	Mauckport, Harrison County, Indiana
Subjects:	steamboats wharves rivers

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