- A
flatboat (or broadhorn) was a
rectangular flat-bottomed boat with
square ends used to
transport freight and p****engers on
inland waterways in the United...
- the
Mississippi River watershed. The
river was
filled with steamboats,
flatboats and
sailing ships.
Despite its role in the
slave trade, New
Orleans at...
- strong, and
became adept at
using an ax. He and some
friends took
goods by
flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana,
where he
first witnessed slave markets. In March...
-
lived just
northeast of New Port,
managed to
reach New
Orleans with a
flatboat shipment and
return safely. In
early 19th-century East Tennessee, which...
-
issued out of
Cincinnati were sp****.
Settler migration was
chiefly via
flatboat on the Ohio
River westerly, and by
wagon trails up the Wabash/White River...
-
building is a
replica of a 1700s
flatboat used by the
early settlers wanting to
travel further west down the river. This
flatboat is
available for any visitor...
-
shipping goods eastward. The
easiest way to ship
produce was to use a
flatboat to
float it down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to the port of New Orleans...
- experimentation, and
agricultural wealth transported on the Ohio
River riverboats,
flatboats,
canal boats, and railroads.[citation needed] The
first violent conflicts...
- families, set out from
Round Lick,
Wilson County,
Tennessee in 1818, in
flatboats. Probably, they used the
Mississippi River to
travel to the
mouth of the...
- chickens, and pigs)
could be
transported on a
flatboat.
Farmer Jacob Yoder of
Pennsylvania built the
first flatboat at Old
Redstone Fort on the Monongahela...
