Everything about Flatboat totally explained
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Flatboat is a rectangular boat with a big bottom and
square ends used to transport
freight on inland
waterways. Essentially a large, sturdy
raft, a flatboat also had a raised edge. A flatboat was almost always a one-way vessel, and was usually dismantled for lumber when it reached its downstream destination. Varieties of flatboat in the early 19th century included the mid-range broadhorn and Kentucky boat, and the longer-range New Orleans boat, which was fully covered.
An average of 3,000 flatboats descended the
Ohio River each year between 1810 and 1820.
Abraham Lincoln twice piloted a flatboat carrying produce from
Illinois to
New Orleans (1828, 1831).
The flatboat gradually became obsolete with as the
steamboat and other faster vessels, which could also transport goods upstream at a profit, became popular.
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