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From: "Arlene Obertance" <>
Subject: RE: [OHCOLUMB] boat industry during WWII question
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:48:19 -0400


Hello

I have heard that they produced items for the war and shipped them down the
Ohio River but can't remember exactly. They still move items on the
barges-specifically coal to the power plants along the river. I will ask
if anyone in my genealogy society knows about the war and I had heard.

Arlene



> [Original Message]
> From: Cathy Raber <>
> To: <>
> Date: 9/24/2004 5:39:36 PM
> Subject: RE: [OHCOLUMB] boat industry during WWII question
>
>
> Christy,
>
> East Liverpool has always had barges going back & forth in
> the OH River, even to this day! Though I'm not a young person, family
> aged, when I was young in the 1960's, there was coal delivered in the
> winter, & assume it came by barges up the river from PA & WVA.
> Can anyone answer her question specifically? Cathy
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Christi Scovel <>
> > To: <>
> > Date: 9/21/2004 12:41:22 PM
> > Subject: [OHCOLUMB] boat industry during WWII question
> >
> > In an article recently written about my grandmother, it states that my
> grandmother said that she and my step grandfather met, when they both
> worked in the boat industry, producing those that went overseas for war.
> >
> > This is the first time anyone in our family has heard this story.
> >
> > We'd like to know if anyone knows what boating industries were in East
> Liverpool area during the WWll era?
> >
> >
> > Christi
> >
> >
> >
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