'PROMETHEUS'
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two-bit Joe
N 34° 41.259 W 077° 07.051
18S E 306026 N 3840445
First steamboat made in N.C. Built in 1818 by Otway Burns, privateer in War of 1812. Shipyard located 350 feet S.W.
Waymark Code: WM1875
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 02/20/2007
Views: 38
Eleven years after Robert Fulton’s invention of the steamship, Otway Burns constructed a similar vessel in North Carolina. Burns, known for his privateering during the War of 1812, built the Prometheus at his waterfront lot, number six, at the mouth of the White Oak River in Swansboro in 1818. Burns attracted the attention of North Carolina newspapers as he strove to launch the Prometheus before the Henrietta, built that year in Fayetteville. The steamship Prometheus entered service on the Cape Fear River by the summer of 1818, shortly before the Henrietta.
Marker Name: 'PROMETHEUS'
Marker Type: Roadside
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Required Waymark Photo: yes
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