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Friday, June 19, 2026
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I grew up in Louisville KY, which once was a major river steamboat port with a mile and more of sloping cobbled riverside, where stern and sidewheelers dropped their gangways...back before roads and railroads, when the rivers were the highway.
ReplyDeleteThe town has its own sternwheeler, the Belle of Louisville...Built in 1914, the Belle is the only remaining authentic steamboat from the great American packet boat era. On Derby Day, it races with what other modern day steamboats there are...the original Delta Queen has alas been retired.
Here's the start of one such race:
https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/TWCNews/0428_ky_steamboat_race
There's also usually a Calliope Duel....calliope is a steam powered pipe organ...between the steamboats. This is a modern one, usually they aren't this pretty, but look like something a mad scientist and a pipefitter put toegether
https://youtu.be/l_Sbxs__c-4
Many of the river craft were built across the rive in New Albany, IN by the Howard family. Their home is a museum, full of gorgeous models and itself a lovely Victorian mansion.
https://www.howardsteamboatmuseum.org/
It becameJeffboat, one of the largest shipyards in the US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffboat
More on the Belle, including cruises....my high school prom rented her.
https://www.belleoflouisville.org/belle-of-louisville/
Comrade Herself may be interested in:
Mary Millicent Miller (1846 –1894) was an American steamboat master who was the first American woman to acquire a steamboat master's license.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Millicent_Miller
While sailing the Saline Mary Miller would serve as the ship's clerk and bookkeeper while George piloted it and a son from George's previous marriage acted as the engineer.[1] In 1883 in an attempt to put the Millers out of business a competing steamboat company, the Banks Line, informed the Steamboat Inspection Service (SIS) that George was acting as both the master and the pilot of his steamboat.[5] A criminal offense. When questioned by the SIS George confirmed that he was, indeed, the pilot but that Mary was the ship's master and that she would be applying for a steamboat master's license as George himself wasn't eligible for the certification due to color blindness.
When Miller applied for a license the New Orleans Inspector of Hulls office was unsure if it could license a woman. Inspector George L. Norton believed it was improper for a woman to hold such a position and did not render a decision for eight months. After which in November 1883 he sent her application to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. Upon receiving her application Secretary Charles J. Folger was equally bewildered and to which he asked "has Mrs. Miller a husband living?" In January 1884 Secretary Folger rendered his decision and telegraphed the New Orleans office the "Mrs. Miller should be granted her license if she were fit for performing the duties required, without regard to her sex".[3]
Political cartoon from Harper's Weekly promoting issuing women steamboat master licenses
Miller passed the examinations and was formally granted her master's license on February 16, 1884, at the age of thirty-eight.[1] That same day, Harper's Weekly ran a cartoon entitled, "By All Means Commission The Ladies"[7] and her picture appeared in the same publication on March 8, 1884. Respected steamboat masters publicly proclaimed her great skill in New Orleans newspapers, while her accomplishment allowed for other females to become steamboat pilots and masters.
https://youtu.be/l_Sbxs__c-4