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Other Websites of Interest
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Historic Sternwheeler Preservation
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Historic Sternwheeler Preservation Society Inc. “A non-profit 501(c)3 corporation organized to preserve, research and promote the heritage and historical significance of sternwheel vessels.”
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Indiana Find
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Indiana Find is an Indiana search engine with listings for Indiana colleges, businesses, parks, zoos, airports and more. Indiana Find is the leading resource for the state of Indiana.
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Marion Sue Bradford Thompson
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Marion Sue Bradford Thompson was a skilled artist who was often drawn to steamboats as the theme of her paintings.
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Museumlink's Museum of Museums
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The website Museumlink.com is a growing site that is built upon a simple concept which is yielding mind-boggling results: it is endeavoring to accumulate links to museum web sites for museums in all of the 50 states (along with Washington, DC), Canada, and the world. The state of Indiana is represented by more than 60 links, including that of our favorite museum, The Howard Steamboat Museum. Warning: this site may be habit forming!
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Nautical Archaeology Program
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The archeology department at Texas A&M University is undertaking to excavate and build a model of the remains of The Heroine, a western river steamboat built in 1832 and wrecked in 1838 between Jonesborough, Texas and Fort Towson, Indian Territory. It is the oldest archaeologically recorded vessel of its type and Oklahoma’s only documented shipwreck. The shipwreck was buried for nearly 150 years in the bank of the constantly shifting Red River until exposed by a flood in 1990.
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River Books & Programs by Jerry Hay
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Jerry Hay grew up along the Wabash River in Indiana where his fascination and love of rivers began. He has traveled the entire length of the Wabash and White Rivers and collected information that can be found in his guide books. His web site talks not only about navigating rivers, but also about history, geography and river lore, along with his books on these topics.
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Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen
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The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen (S&D) was established in 1939 to perpetuate the memory of Pioneer Rivermen and for the preservation of river history. All are welcome to join the former and active riverboat captains, crew and their families, historians, artists, model builders and those with an interest in the history of the people and boats of the Mississippi River system in sustaining a uniquely American tradition.
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Steamboats
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Homepage of Nori Muster - a great site, especially about the Delta Queen.
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Steamboats.org
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This is an incredibly content-rich site for anyone interested in steamboats. To name but a few things, it has a glossary of steamboat terms, an interactive steamboat model, book reviews, a message board, a large collection of photos, audio and video recordings and links to other sites.
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Wylie House Museum
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The Wylie House Museum is an historic house museum that presents the house as it would have looked prior to 1860. The house was built in 1835 by Dr. Andrew Wylie, the first President of Indiana University. The museum has impressive collections of 19th century American furnishings, textiles, and family artifacts.
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