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*Name: LIZZIE CALDWELL
1. Name: LIZZIE CASSEL
Type: Stermwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 141' X 24' X 4.'
Power: Engines, 12's- 4 ft.
Launched: 1873, Marietta, Oh. (hull)/ completed, McConnelsville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1895, sank of old age, scrapped out for $20
Area: Muskingum R.
Captains: When new, Jesse John Barr, McConnelsville-Zanesville trade
Later, William Davis, Lou Myrick, Ed Martin,
A.J. Hahn, and John Rice
Comments: Whistle is in Ohio River Musuem, Marietta, Oh.
: Mentioned several times in this series of Documents
Name: LIZZIE GILL
Type: Sidewheeler. wood hull
Size: Length: 242'; Width: 49'; Draft: 7' Wheels: 30', 13 buckets
Launched: 1850's
Destroyed: 1866, early Jan. at mouth of White R.
Area: L. Miss. R.?
Comments: Named for Lizzie Tate Gill, as was the LIZZIE TATE, below.
More information: from Way's Packet Directory, compiled by
John Hartford, river musician.
Name: LIZZIE TATE
Launched: 1850's
Area: L. Miss. R.?
Comments: Named for Lizzie Tate Gill, as was the LIZZIE GILL, above.
Name: LIZZIE TOWNSEND
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1882 by William Dillard
Destroyed: 1904, June 23, by fire
Area: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner: Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: LIZZIE WARDEN
Area: 1870, Mo. R. 1st ferryboat between Yankton and Green Island Neb.
Comments: said to be able to carry 20 loaded agons and their horses.
This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was, believed
to have been in a Yankton, S.D. newspaper.

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