Sometime in 1896 or 1897, the Steamer Saint Lucie joined the Steamers "Saint Augustine," "Saint Sebastian," and "The Swan" in plying the waters of the Indian River. The Indian River and Bay Biscayne Inland Navigation Company, an affiliate of the Florida canal company constructing the ICW, purchased these vessels from the bankrupt Indian River Steamboat [...]
Category: Indian River
Sir Sandford Fleming, chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadians are coming! The Canadians are coming! In the late 1880s, four Canadians, including Sir Sandford Fleming's son, Sandford H. Fleming, traveled to the State of Florida to enter into a subcontract with the Florida canal company to perform a portion of the work in the Matanzas-Halifax River Cut joining St. Augustine and today's [...]
Florida’s Big Dig 