On first sight, the American Duchess charmed me with her white, wedding-cake exterior adorned with gingerbread trim. The big, red paddle wheel on the back paid tribute to her steamboat lineage, a ...

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TAVARES — The latest tourist attraction coming to the Tavares waterfront is a hallmark of a bygone era that soon will be chugging along Lake Dora. The City Council has signed off on a lease agreement, ...

A paddlewheel steamboat called the E. Rutledge was once used to tow log rafts on the Chippewa River during the lumbering era. As the lumber industry prospered, it became more difficult for the ...

Delaware North Cos. will keep its flagship American Queen paddle-wheel steamboat docked at its New Orleans wharf in 2006, citing the city's slow recovery in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Buffalo ...

Jul. 14—ALBANY — An osprey's nest, shark teeth and the wreck of the steamboat Bessie Clary, which sank near Albany around 1903, are among the sights paddlers could experience on Saturday. The Flint ...