Unbound: A Collection of Indiana Stories

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Indiana Maritime History

Indiana Historical Society Season 6 Episode 7

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On this episode of Unbound: A Collection of Indiana Stories, Casey and Regan are hitting the high seas... or the Great Lakes. First Regan tells us about the New Orleans, one of the first steams ships to navigate up and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Then Casey tells the tragic tale of the Muskegon and J.D. Marshall which helped haul sand to create Chicago’s lakeshore.

Lost on The Lakes, Traces 1998

Further Information:

Robert Fulton

Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters

The Pageant of the Packets: A Book of American Steamboating

Indiana Sand and Gravel Producers Association, 1920


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