Description: Steamboats on Long Island Sound, Connecticut, Images of America, Paperback Robert Fulton built the world's first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, but it was not until after the War of 1812 that these vessels entered service along the Long Island Sound. For 127 years, between 1815 and 1942, steamboats provided a link between New York and cities in southern New England, greatly reducing travel time. Steamboats served the Connecticut cities of Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Derby, New Haven, Hartford, New London, Norwich, and Stonington. They also linked New York to the Rhode Island cities of Newport, Bristol, and Providence as well as the southern Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford. The rapid expansion of industries in southern New England gave steamboats the additionally important role of transporting raw materials to mills and factories and their finished products to New York. Rivalries between steamboat services led to the construction of faster, larger, and more elegantly furnished boats, resulting in the "floating palaces" that were some of the largest and most majestic steamboats the world had ever seen.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467122238
Book Title: Steamboats on Long Island Sound
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Norman J. Brouwer
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Boating, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / Northeast / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Photography, Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
