1900s, Photo Search
A 1906 Sigma Chi party almost ended in disaster when the boat hit a snag, throwing the two young ladies on the roof, Irma Hooker and Jamie Irby, into the river. The newspaper account notes, “Nearly all the young men went to the rescue” and “the...
1900s, Photo Search
This postcard shows a trainload of cotton being readied to ship out of Newport. The railroads would soon surpass the steamboats as carriers of the area’s farm crops, and the age of the steamboat on the South’s inland waterways would be gone with the wind....
1900s, Photo Search
The steamer General Joe Wheeler ran on the White and Black Rivers and is shown at Newport in 1904, loaded with 500 bales of cotton. Built in 1899, the boat was owned by Capt. W.A. “Billy” Joyce and Capt. Tom Stallings of Newport when this photograph was...
1900s, Photo Search
The steamboat Grand docks at either Jacksonport or Newport about 1903. It seems to be coming upriver since the deck is loaded with boxes and buckets instead of bales of cotton. The containers are most likely filled with salt, sugar, coffee, and even oysters, and the...
1900s, Photo Search
Tuckerman lies 10 miles north of Newport, and it derived much of its early wealth from the timber industry as well as the production of cotton. Here, a lumberyard stands close to the railroad tracks since Tuckerman is not situated on the river. This photograph was...
