COLLECTION NAME:
Mary Wheeler Collection
Record
Filename:
MW.B4.F21.323(i).jpg
Identifier:
MW.B4.F21.323(i)
Title:
Stw. Destrehan
Creator:
Wheeler, Mary (1892-1979)
Subject:
Steamboats
Subject:
Boatbuilding -- Paducah (KY)
Subject:
River industry -- Paducah (KY)
Description:
Port side of the sternwheeler DESTREHAN at the Paducah Marine Ways. According to Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983, the DESTREHAN (Way #T0594), a sternwheeler towboat with a steel hull (133.9 x 32 x 5.4), was built by the Ward Engineering Works in Charleston, W.VA. in 1922. Originally owned by the Pan American Petroleum Company of New Orleans, it was later bought by the American Rolling Mill Company and her name changed to the CHARLES R. HOOK.
Publisher:
McCracken County Public Library
Date:
Circa 1935
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Image/TIFF
Language:
English
Coverage:
Lower Ohio River Valley
Rights:
Permission must be obtained from the McCracken County Public Library, Local and Family History Department
Citation:
Ancestry Library Edition. ProQuest, n.d. Web. Caron's Directory of the City of Paducah, KY. Louisville, KY: Caron Directory Company Inc., 1908-1959. Print. "Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records." Web. 2014. "Paducahky.gov." Oak Grove Cemetery. City of Paducah. Web. 2014. Way, Frederick, Jr. Way�s Packet Directory, 1848-1983. Athens, OH: Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, 1983. Print. Way, Frederick, and Joseph W. Rutter. Way's Steam Towboat Directory. Athens: Ohio UP, 1990. Print. Wheeler, Mary. Steamboatin� Days: Folk Songs of the River Packet Era. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Print. 1860-1940 U.S. Census, population schedule, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com)
Stw. Destrehan
