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Iain Stuart Yardley
Member
Username: boz
Post Number: 752
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 2:24 pm: | 
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Today, 11th October 1811, the world's first commercial ferry service began operations in New York when the steam-powered Juliana left Vesey Street, Manhattan and docked at Hoboken, New Jersey. Built by Col. John Stevens III, he named the ferry after his daughter.
http://www.newsday.com/other/special/ny-ihny1106story.htmlstory
Is there a picture anywhere of this ferry? |
Jason D. Tiller
Moderator
Username: jtiller
Post Number: 2297
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 3:44 am: |
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I tried Google, but came up with nothing. Sorry Boz.
"To be happy is to be contented in your own mind"...Harold Godfrey Lowe
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