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On May 2, a race of a different type will take place on the Ohio River when the Great Steamboat Race pits three massive steamboats against one another.
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Tragedy befell other steamboats built in Cincinnati.
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The group, 110 strong, originally asked their captor, an Alabama steamboat captain and plantation owner named Timothy Meaher, to pay for passage back to Africa.
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The group, 110 strong, originally asked their captor, an Alabama steamboat captain and plantation owner named Timothy Meaher, to pay for passage back to Africa.
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The second shot is also of the CCC, though from a different angle, with a steamboat in the foreground.
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Posey, an enterprising black steamboat engineer and coal magnate, The Courier’s fortunes were favorable at the outset when Posey decided the newspaper could best be run by a dignified, resourceful attorney named Robert L. Vann.
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But by April 25, the weather had turned fine in St. Louis, where the steamboat Omega stood alongside the wharf, its bow pointed upriver.
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The stage was covered by a drop curtain that had a painting of the burning steamboat Bulletin No. 2, a disaster survived by young Church and his white father and master, Captian Charles B. Church.
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First Known Use of steamboat
1785
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: a boat that is powered by steam
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