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Save the Delta Queen! 
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Save the Delta Queen!
Support our campaign to save the historic steamboat Delta Queen. YOUR action is needed. Please read about the details at the Save the Delta Queen Campaign's website and sign our > online petition. |
Independently owned refueling sites along the river. Anyone with riverside property and access to wood for fuel could operate a woodyard. The woodyard owner cut the wood and sold it by the cord (4-ft. x 4-ft. x 8-ft. sections) at whatever price the market would bear. Some woodyard entrepreneurs loaded the wood onto flatboats so that a passing steamer could take the fiat in tow and unload without stopping. After the Civil War, steamboats gradually converted to coal and the once common woodyards disappeared from the rivers' shores.
Steamboats.org recommends ...For river cruises, train journeys and other leisure travel, domestic or international, contact our favorite travel agent, Phyllis Dale. She has the experience you need when planning a vacation. www.phyllisdale.com phyllisdaletravel @cfl.rr.com Note: Phyllis does not book day excursions. |
