Record #:

22875

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, steamboats piled the Tar River. The first ship to use the Tar River was a sidewheel called the "Edmund D. McNair." It operated on the Tar from 1836 until 1839. Other early steamboats were the Oregon, Amidas, Red Skull and the Gov. Morehead. By the 1870s, steamboats were quite common in the Tar River. The Clyde Line, Old Dominion Line, and Shiloh Oil Mills companies all constructed or put boats on the Tar. Twenty-three different boats traveled up and down the Tar River until 1915, when the railroad ended the steamboat era.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Mar 15-28 1989, p10-11, il

Subject(s):

Steamboats--North Carolina, Eastern--History; Tar River--History--Steamboats