Browsing by Subject "Lake Champlain"
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(2019-02-28)Steam-propelled vessels transformed North American life in the nineteenth century, but many aspects of the boats still elude us, particularly for the dynamic decades of experimentation and adaptation before 1850. Fortunately, ...
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The Passenger Steamboat Phoenix: An Archaeological Study of Early Steam Propulsion in North America (2012-08-31)The advent of steam contributed heavily to the economic transformation of early America, facilitating trade through the transportation of goods along the country’s lakes, rivers, and canals. Serious experimentation with ...
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(2015-08-06)Steamboats became commercially viable in the early nineteenth century, and by the 1830s were arguably the most popular form of long-distance travel around North America, especially on inland waterways like Lake Champlain. ...
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(2021-04-15)In 1983, the British sloop Boscawen and two other vessels were discovered in the shallow waters near Fort Ticonderoga, New York. The vessels located at the site are believed to be some of the oldest sailing vessels in Lake ...