Pulaski County GaArchives History .....Steamboat Stewart 1886
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A NEW BOAT ON THE OCMULGEE

(Excerpt from Hawkinsville Dispatch, 1886)

   The new steamboat, J. C. Stewart, from Wilmington, N. C., to Hawkinsville, on
Monday night last, in charge of Capt. J. G. Bagley, with Anderson Newsome and
George Bennefield as pilots, arrived at Hawkinsville.

   The Stewart is a boat of substantial construction, with a carrying capacity
of one hundred and twenty-nine tons and accommodations for twenty cabin
passengers. She was built in Wilmington, N. C., last summer for Lasseter Ham &
Co., of Hawkinsville, and this is her first trip up the 0cmulgee.

   The Stewart has a light draught of eleven inches, and can traverse the
0cmulgee at six and a half to seven miles an hour up stream. She brought up on
her first trip several bales of cotton and three hundred barrels of rosin and
spirits turpentine, and carried down a large quantity of flour and other
merchandise for landings between Hawkinsville and Lumber City. The boat is 101
feet in length and 21 feet beam. Captain Bagley, who was in command of the
Stewart, informed us he was in Hawkinsville thirty-four years ago (1852) as
engineer of the steamboat Isaac Scott, which may be remembered by some of the
older citizens. He says the Isaac Scott on her first trip from Hawkinsville had
on board eight hundred and eight bales of cotton for Savannah.

   All the cotton raised in this portion of the State in those days was carried
to Savannah by boats on the 0cmulgee. There are three boats on our river now,
and all are owned by the business men of Hawkinsville. Mr. Robert V. Bowen, who
owns the Mary Jeter and Colville, is now building a new boat at this place. The
railroad track has been extended to the river, and the wharf shows much business
activity.


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"HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY GEORGIA"

OFFICIAL HISTORY

COMPILED BY THE HAWKINSVILLE CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESS OF WALTER W. BROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

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