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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: August 31, 2010
Caption: Modern Day Riverboat Traffic
Additional Description: In Twain's day, steamboats traveled the river. Today diesel engined tow boats push barges. In 1913, while towing a large number of coal barges, the steam powered towboat Sprague collided with stone dikes just north of the Sans Souci landing (likely near one of the chutes to the distant left). Thousands of tons of coal dumped into the river. This deposit was later washed downstream when the river shifted courses.
Submitted: September 29, 2010, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p129983
File Size: 0.946 Megabytes

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