Schedule For The Flatboat Alexander Norris
Summer 2003~Launch at Prickett’s Fort, Fairmont, WV, at the Head of Navigation and fit out for the voyage. Autumn 2003~Welcome aboard schools and public on shakedown cruise down the entire Monongahela R. to Pittsburgh, PA.
Winter 2003~Lay up for maintenance and re-fit and
repairs.
March to June 2004~From E. Liverpool, Ohio, down the Ohio R. to Middleport, Ohio, and back up the Ohio River to Marietta, Ohio, and up the Muskingum River to Zanesville, Ohio, in time to meet the wagon train heading west on the National Road.
July 2004~From Zanesville, Ohio, down the Muskingum R. to Marietta, and down the Ohio R. to Gallipolis, Ohio.
August 2004~On the Great Kanawha R. to Winfield, the WV State Capitol, Dan’l Boone Park, the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta, etc.
September-October 2004~From Gallipolis, Ohio, down the Ohio R. to Cincinnati, Ohio, in time for TALL STACKS 2003. October-November 2004~Schools visit flatboat in Cincinnati, OH, and in Covington, KY.
Winter 2004~Lay up for maintenance and re-fit and repairs. Spring 2005~From Cincinnati, OH, down the Ohio R. and the Mississippi R. to New Orleans, LA.
Photo courtesy & Property of: Bela Berty and is used with permission. The information was also supplied by Bela Berty.
This set is NOT public domain and is NOT to leave this site at all. It is for my own personal use only. Thanks.....Fiddlinsue
Pages last update was: February 23, 2003
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