THE MARY POWELL STEAMBOAT
Print of the Mary Powell from the private collection of David Brinkerhoff
Built in 1861, the Mary Powell honored as the "Queen of the Hudson," was perhaps the best-known American side-wheeler steamboat of the 19th Century. For more than half a century she ran as a day boat on the Hudson River between New York and Rondout Creek. She cost $80,000 to build and she could make the run from Poughkeepsie to New York in three hours and twenty minutes. Next >>