Steamboat Enterprise/Boatbuilding Center
N 40° 01.283 W 079° 53.297
17T E 594867 N 4430722
This Dually Sided PA Historical Marker is located at Dunlap's Creek Park, Bank Street, Brownsville Borough, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMW9V9
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 07/30/2017
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Marker Text:
SIDE 1 (Steamboat Enterprise): Fourth steamboat built in Western Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, 1814. Engine design by Daniel French. Capt. Henry M. Shreve, commanding. Steamed to New Orleans, Fall, 1814 and returned June 1815. First steamboat to ascend the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
SIDE 2 (Boatbuilding Center): Flatboats and keelboats built here for trade and downriver migration, 1780-1820. From 1825-1903 a leading steamboat construction center. Over 700 steamboats were built in Bridgeport and West Brownsville and completed in Brownsville.
Marker Name: Steamboat Enterprise/Boatbuilding Center
County: Fayette
Date Dedicated: 08/27/1994
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Dunlap's Creek Park, Bank Street, Brownsville
Category: Business & Industry, Transportation
Website: Not listed
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