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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 8, 2015
Caption: Marker detail: Steamboat
Additional Description: Steamboats like the Columbia (shown arriving at Astoria) carried hundreds of passengers and tons of freight up, down and across the “river highway.” Until 1898, when the railroad reached Astoria, you went by boat if you needed to get up or down the river.
Submitted: January 25, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p414247
File Size: 1.731 Megabytes

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