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From: SLWillig <>
Subject: [NY-WWS] Steamboats on Lake Champlain
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:39:58 -0500


"Steamboat navigation in the county has been chiefly on Lake Champlain, and
its southern terminal point for over half a century was the port of
Whitehall, created in 1799, but not recognized until 1849. For a period of
sixty-five years passenger travel continued north by boat. The end came in
1875, when the Canada railroad carried passengers to Ticonderoga, which
then became the southern lake terminal for steam passenger boats. The
following boats [ran] during this period: Vermont, 1810-17; Phoenix,
1816-19; Champlain, 1816-17; Congress, 1819; Phoenix (2d), 1822: Franklin,
1826; Washington, 1727-29; Burlington, 1830; Whitehall, 1833; Saranac,
1833; Francis Saltus, 1845; United States, 1847; Canada, 1852; R.W.
Sherman, 1852; Montreal, 1857-75; Adirondack, 1865-75; Vermont (2d),
1871-75. A short line of steamers ran from Whitehall to Ticonderoga, from
1875 to 1877, when they were withdrawn.

"When passenger boats were withdrawn, boats and barges were towed by three
steamer lines: The Northern Transportation, established in 1857; The
Whitehall, that was put on in 1865; and H.G. BURLEIGH's private line."



Source: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY AND THE TOWN OF
QUEENSBURY, NEW YORK, Arranged & Edited by the Gresham Publishing Co.,
Richmond, IN, 1894

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