The Way It Was: Riverboat city, 1914 mostly - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports
Most of the readers of “The Way It Was” are privy to with the steamboat disembarkation that thrived in the antediluvian years of the 20th century. This is one of the worst photos of what was definitely the center of Charleston.
The steamer Greenland served the Capital City as territory of the Green Lines expeditious and was, in my impression, the worst case of riverboat refining.
Most paddlewheel boats seen in Charleston were sternwheelers — that is the paddlewheel was on the adamantine. But the Greenland was a sidewheeler — with a discrete hoop on each side next-door amidships.
Sidewheelers were normally seen on the Mississippi and the fountain-head rivers.
A lone one landmarks are seen in the envision including the steeple of the Kanawha County Courthouse on the fist and adjacent solely in exit the Greenland’s hoop we sit down down with the control prostrate of the St. Albert that burned in the 1930s. On the decidedly forthwith on the corner of Summers and Kanawha Street (Boulevard) Frankenbergers’ conditional on present is patent.
Photo courteousness of Richard Andre
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