The Connecticut River Valley and the Connecticut River Valley Steamboat Company
Author: Robert Hugh McGrath
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 53
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Author: Robert Hugh McGrath
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 53
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Erik Hesselberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-07-15
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1493044508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNight Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers, unlike the tubby, wedding cake dowagers of Western waters, were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake as they cruised along. Departing each afternoon from State Street or Talcott Street wharf in Hartford, the “night boats” reached New York at daybreak, inaugurating a pattern of city commuting that continues to this day. Steamboating not only brought people and goods—Colt’s firearms and Essex’s pianos—down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America’s inland “Spa Culture” transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. No wonder crowds wept in the fall of 1931, when the last steamboats, made obsolete by the automobile, churned away from the dock and headed downriver—never to return.
Author: Erik Hesselberg
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781493044498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A portrait of the steamboat era, when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge"--
Author: Melancthon Williams Jacobus
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Connecticut River Watershed Council
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-11-22
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1493082124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the all-new edition of the Connecticut River Boating Guide, the standard resource for boaters, canoeists, and kayakers. It includes thirty-two GPS-compatible maps that together map the entire length of the river. Data for twenty-eight river reaches include information on mileage, navigability, difficulty, sources of flow information, portages, camping, USGS maps and NOAA charts, special fishing regulations, boating facilities, and more. The narrative text accompanying the maps is a mile-by-mile description of the river with detailed information on landmarks, navigational hazards, conservation, wildlife, and history. The book is authored by, and published in cooperation with, the Connecticut River Watershed Council, the leading organization devoted to management of the river and its watershed.
Author: Edwin Monroe Bacon
Publisher: New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's sons
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 718
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wick Griswold
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-10-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1439670498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of the lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Their accomplishments include building the first warship of the Connecticut navy and the world's first submarine. They also served as packet ship captains, navigators and skilled crew members who crossed the Atlantic. The Essex area was also home to dedicated craftsmen who produced some of the finest yachts ever built. Noted historians Wick Griswold and Ruth Major detail one village's important role in American maritime history.