Not to categorize the steamboat Hanniba, as a disaster,” director Cassandra Dean said. “It was because of the association that spring of 1857 that founded Beatrice.” ...

Discover the remarkable life of Maj. James F. Brooks, a Missouri-born civil engineer who played a pivotal role in developing ...

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By 1857, there were 100 buildings in Quindaro. It was the only free port on the Missouri River. Six steamboats a day arrived by the following year. By January 1859, Quindaro, population 800 ...

The side-wheel steamer Arabia was constructed in 1853 for powering through the muddy Missouri ... from the river bank beneath 45 feet of earth; it then became the focus of the Arabia Steamboat ...

Former Missouri Net News Director and museum ... act as a resource to preserve the collection of the Steamboat Museum, Priddy said that the River City can equally benefit from the museum's presence.