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Victor, small steamer at Vergennes
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- Description: The Wharf, Vergennes, Vt.
- Parent Collections: Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)
Reindeer
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- Description: The Str. Reindeer, built at St. Albans in 1882 (181' x 27' x 9'), was the largest to navigate Otter Creek. This picture shows her at Vergennes in her trimmer and more youthful days, before the life of an Excursion boat made her sag in the middle. In the gay Nineties, it was a common sigh to see her staggering up and down the lake, her decks weighed down with crowds who often flocked to one side or the other giving her a careening look, her guards on one side almost at the water's edge and the paddlewheel on the opposite side fanning the air. She would then stop until the crew could restore equilibrium among passengers and boat. She sank at her dock in Burlington in 1902 from causes not known.
- Parent Collections: Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)
Hickok's
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- Date Created: 1895
- Description: Hickok's Dock and Hickok's Point. Picture taken 1895. Hickok's Point is about midway between Ft. Cassin and Basin Harbor on the Vermont side. Hickok's served as a landing place for the "Water Lily" and the "Nellie" on their trips to Vergennes and Westport. Other landings on this route were Ft. Cassin, Kimballs, Mile Point, Basin Harbor, with the occasional landings at Higginson's Harbor and Barn Rock on the N.Y. side.
- Parent Collections: Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)
Chateaugay
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- Description: Steamer "Chateaugay" (Capacity 50 cars) The largest steamer operating auto ferry service on Lake Champlain. Frequent trips between Burlington, VT., and Port Kent, NY (3 miles to Ausable Chasm)
- Parent Collections: Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)