The Ferryboat Landing

The Ferryboat Landing. Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. , For nearly a century ferryboats docked along the river bank below. Beginning in 1831, at a site one mile west of here called Griswoll City, a ferryboat poled across the river daily. By the late 1800's ferryboats were making hourly trips from New Haven to Warren Count Residents north of the river living in the communities of Pinckney, Piers, Holstein, Treloar, and Smith Creek used the ferry for travel New Haven to shop and socialize. High School students used the ferry to attend school in New Haven. , Built with paddlewheels, the early boats were powered by steam engines fueled with wood. The most unusual ferryboat, the "Tilda-Clara", circa 1900, was powered by a team of horses which walked on a treadmill and turned the paddlewheel. Later boats use gasoline engines and carried automobiles and their passengers. Olive Street, then called Ferry Street, led from the station. Many New Haven businesses, including street benefited from ferryboat traffic. With the Washington in 1936 ferryboat service was residents living on opposite sides of the river.