Steamer - Cotton Plant (I)
Builder:
Built: Fayetteville, NC April 12, 1826
Owner: Duncan Thompson
Captains: John Banks, Thomas M. Green
Specifications: side-wheel, 108 x 16.5 ft.
Notes: Cotton Plant Steamboat Company.
Sometime in the 1830s, the boat ceased operating.
After 1847, it sank below the Railroad wharf,
her machinery was salvaged.
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