Summary: | The caption under the picture reads: "Fine and flossy were many of the steamboats that plied the Chattahoochee River through the long decades when boating was a large and important industry in this section. This is a picture of the "new and elegant Steamer Rebecca Everingham of the Central LIne of Steamers at Columbus, GA. Samuel J. Whiteside, General Agent; Geo. B. Whiteside, Secretary and Treasurer. The legend accompanying this gallant photograph: "Built at Columbus, Ga., 1880. Plies Chattahoochee, Flint and Apalachicola Rivers. Length 192 feet. Beam 28 feet. Bepth of hold, 5 fett, 3 inches. 28 State Rooms." The Rebecca Everingham burned at Fitzgerald Landing April 3, 1884, in one of the worst tragedies in the history of Chattahoochee River steamboating. Eight lives were lost."
|