Defining Eastern North Carolina Upriver Steamboats Through Tar River Archaeology and History

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Elizabeth Wyllie (Creator)
Institution
East Carolina University (ECU )
Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/
Advisor
Bradley A. Rodgers

Abstract: This thesis will identify the salient features of North Carolina upriver steamboats and their relationships to steamboats from a variety of regions in the United States in an effort to understand the means by which people adapted and reinvented the steamboat for an array of different environments. Upriver steamboats on the Tar River in eastern North Carolina were an amalgamation of available inland marine technology designed borrowed and adapted to allow steamboat service despite navigational hazards and low water. The Tar River had a commercial history that paralleled other southeastern waterways and therefore it is an appropriate case study of navigation on an upriver transport zone in the southeastern United States. 

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Publication
Thesis
Date: 2012
Keywords
Archaeology, History, American studies, Construction, Industry, North Carolina, Southeastern, Steamboat, Upriver
Subjects
River steamers--North Carolina--Tar River (Person County-Beaufort County)--History--19th century

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