Tag: Steamboats
Steamer “Saint Augustine,” tied up at Rockledge Landing
The Florida canal company formed the Indian River and Bay Biscayne Inland Navigation Company to acquire and run steamers on the nearly complete Florida East Coast Canal in the late 1890s. This steamboat company bought the steamers when the prior owner, the Indian River Steamboat Company, went bankrupt. Courtesy, Florida State Archives, Tallahassee, Fla.
The Steamboat “Saint Lucie”
The "Steamboat "Saint Lucie" tied up at the Rock Ledge (Rockledge) Landing.
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 “Saint Lucie”
While the Florida canal company dredged what would become the Intracoastal Waterway, company directors in 1896 organized the Indian River and Bay Biscayne Inland Navigation Company to run steamboats on navigable portions of the waterway. One such steamboat was the "Saint Lucie" depicted here.</ In 1898, the steamboat affiliate won the contract to ship munitions [...]
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 [...]
Florida’s Big Dig 