Category Archives: Steamboat WASHINGTON
STEAMBOATS SERVING WHEELING 1811 – 1920 By John Bowman
- JohnBowman
- on Jan, 28, 2019
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A 100-year listing of approximately 500 steamboats that served Wheeling businesses. The year shown is the first year they served the port and some would serve Wheeling for many years. From the Civil War years to 1900, eighteen steamboats docked daily at Wheeling. Steamboats porting at Wheeling were charged a wharfage fee of $3.00 per […]
Read MoreBOOKS by WHEELING AUTHOR John Bowman
- JohnBowman
- on Jan, 24, 2019
- CategoryAuthentic Steamboat Model, Bellaire Ohio, Belmont County Ohio, Belmont County Sheriff’s Residence Museum, Centre Market Wheeling, Civil War, Civil War Ironclad, Civil War Steamboat Model, Ferry Boat Ohio River, John Bowman, John Bowman's Steamboat Models, Ohio, Ohio Valley River Museum, Point Pleasant River Museum, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat book, Steamboat History, Steamboat Model, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, Warwood West Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling Stogie, Wheeling Streets, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash, Wheeling's Manufacturing History
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John Bowman Author, Historian, West Virginia History Hero and Steamboat Model Builder. John’s writings concentrate on Wheeling’s boat history. Wheeling began building boats, Barges, Bateaux, Flatboats, Keelboats, and Pirogues in 1774, the first Ohio River city to build boats, and the third settlement on the ‘Western Rivers’ to have a boat building industry. ‘Western Rivers’ […]
Read MoreBOAT BUILDING WHEELING’S FIRST MAJOR INDUSTRY Book by John Bowman
- JohnBowman
- on May, 11, 2018
- CategoryAuthentic Steamboat Model, Centre Wheeling South Wheeling, Ritchietown, Manchester Addition, Westview Addition, LaGrange, Fulton, Ferry Boat Ohio River, John Bowman, John Bowman's Steamboat Models, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat book, Steamboat History, Steamboat Model, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash, Wheeling's Manufacturing History, Yates Marine Construction Co. Wheeling WV
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BOAT BUILDING WHEELING’S FIRST MAJOR INDUSTRY With Early WHEELING History Including Maps of Streets, Businesses and Dwellings CELEBRATING WHEELING’S 250th ANNIVERSARY Book by John Bowman $19.95 Available on Amazon.com Books, and at Wheeling’s ‘Artisan Center’. The Zane Brothers Founded Wheeling in 1769. A full and complete history of this is chronicled in the first part […]
Read MoreWHEELING’S MAIN STREET COVERED BRIDGE 1816-1832 Wheeling’s First Bridge
- JohnBowman
- on Mar, 14, 2017
- CategoryJohn Bowman, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash
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WHEELING’S MAIN STREET COVERED BRIDGE 1816-1832 Wheeling’s first bridge At Wheeling, Virginia (West Virginia) in the winter of 1815-1816, while the steamboat Washington, then under construction, awaited its steam machinery from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, its builder, Henry Miller Shreve had George White, White’s Lead Carpenter Samuel Wait, and their carpenters build a covered bridge. This was […]
Read MoreWHEELING’S “FORT RANDOLPH” U.S. Troop Garrison 1794-1815 Wheeling’s Other Fort
- JohnBowman
- on Mar, 07, 2017
- CategoryJohn Bowman, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat History, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash, Wheeling's Manufacturing History
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“FORT RANDOLPH” U.S. TROOP GARRISON 1794-1815 WHEELING’S OTHER FORT by John Bowman Wheeling’s “Fort Randolph” was named for Edmund Jennings Randolph, a highly respected Virginian who served as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington in 1775 and was elected to the Virginia Convention of 1776. He was Virginia’s first Attorney General and Mayor of the […]
Read MoreSteamboat Stamp WASHINGTON
- JohnBowman
- on Dec, 28, 2016
- CategoryJohn Bowman, John Bowman's Steamboat Models, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat History, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash, Wheeling's Manufacturing History, WV Independence Hall
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STEAMBOAT WASHNGTON 1816 STAMP ISSUED MAR 3, 1989 In 1929, Garnett Laidlaw Eskew writes of Wheeling, West Virginia on page 32 in his critically acclaimed book, ‘The Pageant of the Packets, A Book of American Steamboating’: “We wonder if Wheeling knows she is the birthplace of the American steamboat. Is Midland America aware that it is […]
Read MoreWHEELING BUILT STEAMBOATS the Washington
- JohnBowman
- on Dec, 06, 2016
- CategoryAuthentic Steamboat Model, John Bowman, John Bowman's Steamboat Models, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat History, Steamboat Model, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash, Wheeling's Manufacturing History, WV Independence Hall
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Washington Henry Miller Shreve’s 1815 stern-wheel steam-powered Washington, built on the North bank of Wheeling Creek was the first steamboat built in Wheeling, Virginia. The Washington was one hundred and thirty-four feet in length and twenty-eight feet in width with two decks, the first double-decker steamboat. Washington had two high-pressure steam engines, the first on […]
Read MoreWHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA’S BOAT YARD HISTORY
- JohnBowman
- on Aug, 29, 2016
- CategoryAuthentic Steamboat Model, John Bowman, John Bowman's Steamboat Models, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat History, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash, Wheeling's Manufacturing History
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Wheeling’s Boat Yard History by John Bowman September 2016 In 1815-1816, the James Patton and James Palmer boat yards watched Henry Miller Shreve’s progress as he built Wheeling’s first steamboat, the steamboat Washington. North Wheeling’s Boat Yards The James Pemberton boat yard. In 1815, James Pemberton opened the first boat yard In North Wheeling, and […]
Read MoreJOHN BOWMAN Wheeling, West Virginia
- JohnBowman
- on Aug, 24, 2016
- CategoryBelmont County Sheriff’s Residence Museum, Glinda Bowman, John Bowman, John Bowman's Steamboat Models, Ohio, Ohio Valley River Museum, Point Pleasant River Museum, Salathiel Benjamin Rush Sgt. “F” Co. 63rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat book, Steamboat History, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's Manufacturing History
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“A HISTORY OF THE STEAMBOAT WASHINGTON”
- JohnBowman
- on Jul, 15, 2015
- CategoryAuthentic Steamboat Model, John Bowman, John Bowman's Steamboat Models, Steamboat Birthplace, Steamboat book, Steamboat History, Steamboat Model, Steamboat WASHINGTON, Uncategorized, W. Va. History, West Virginia History Hero, Wheeling, Wheeling Author, Wheeling Boat Building, Wheeling Historian, Wheeling Steamboat History, Wheeling WV History, Wheeling's 250th Birthday Bash, Wheeling's Manufacturing History, WV Independence Hall
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“A HISTORY OF THE STEAMBOAT WASHINGTON” THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL WESTERN RIVERS STEAMBOAT John Bowman $6.00 Available on Amazon.com Books. It is little known that Wheeling is considered the birthplace of the American steamboat. This book documents Henry Miller Shreve’s building of the steamboat Washington at Wheeling, Virginia. The Washington was the first successful Western Rivers […]
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