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Before major infrastructure opened the western mountains for easy access, an enterprising man named Colonel S. V. Pickens tried to take advantage of river travel. In 1878, Pickens secured a charter for the French Broad Steamboat Company and $25,000 in state appropriations to open the French Broad River for river travel. With the charter and state money the Mountain Lily, a river steamboat, was launched in 1881 to run from Hendersonville to Brevard before finally making the trip to Asheville. Though the steamboat could carry passengers and cargo, the river proved inhospitable for river travel and after a few years was abandoned.
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31680
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Once advertised as the “highest steam line in the world” the Mountain Lily was constructed to carry 100 passengers and cargo down part of the French Broad River between Brevard and Ashville. For Four years the steamboat carried passengers and cargo between Hendersonville and Brevard; and was host to several parties before it ran aground for the last time. There is no evidence that it ever made it to Ashville.
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