Category: Steamboats
The Steamboat “Swan” on a run in the Indian River, Fla.
On runs up and down the Florida East Coast Canal, which later became the Intracoastal Waterway, the flat-bottomed sternwheeler "Swan" was as light as "a dew drop" in transporting passengers, tourists, and commercial fruit and vegetables during the early part of the 1900's.
From Skull Creek over Calibogue Sound to a Sunset over Daufuskie Island
This sunset view was taken from Skull Creek at Hilton Head Island over the Calibogue Sound. The Sound is a section of the federally controlled Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The Waterway extends some 1,400 miles from Miami, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia. Of all the barrier islands protecting the Atlantic coast, the longest is Long Island, New [...]
From Skull Creek over Calibogue Sound to a Sunset over Daufuskie Island
This sunset view was taken from Skull Creek at Hilton Head Island over the Calibogue Sound. The Sound is a section of the federally controlled Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The Waterway extends some 1,400 miles from Miami, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia. Of all the barrier islands protecting the Atlantic coast, the longest is Long Island, New [...]
The Steamer “Swan” Schedule of Tolls
The listing of tolls to travel along what would become the Intracoastal Waterway between several points along the privately owned Florida East Coast Canal in 1911. During its long history, the "Swan" would carry freight and passengers, and often, passengers and their automobiles. Freight included large cargoes of citrus fruit and pineapples in the late [...]
The Steamboat “Courtney”
One of the older steamboats plying the waters of what was then called the Florida East Coast Canal, the "Courtney" carried mostly passengers on short trips along the Florida East Coast in the 1890's. Henry Flagler, then president of both the Florida East Coast Railway and the Florida canal company, cruised into Miami on the [...]
Small tourist steamer in the Jupiter Narrows
A narrow steamer carrying tourists in the Jupiter Narrows section of what was then called the Florida East Coast Canal (now, Intracoastal Waterway), as the Indian River narrowed down into Lake Worth. In some stretches of the Narrows, steamers of ordinary width stopped and started their way through a brush-lined privately owned tollway in the [...]
Steamboat “Swan” about 1900
The "Swan" plied what was then called the Florida East Coast Canal (later, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway) during the early 1910's. On the first level, the steamer carried freight, including crates of pineapple, citrus, and fresh winter vegetables. The crew was housed in cabins on the third or upper level. At other times, the "Swan" [...]
Florida’s Big Dig 