Steamboats a budding steamboat building industry: we produced a total of four steamboats between 1824 and 1827, that is until the white oak timber gave out. [By this time four steamboats had been built at Big Bone. See Bob Ellis, “Early Steamboats Built at Big Bone Lick,” Enquirer, 1 Jan 1963; from Fitzgerald Scrapbook, volume 3.]

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