1910's, Photo Search
Taken in front of Gustave Jones home at Second and Beech Streets, this photograph shows boaters enjoying the novelty of the flood. Standing on the porch are Jones (right) and an unidentified man. Jones’s daughter Leah Jones Hurt, sits in the bow of the boat,...
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...
1880s, Photo Search
The Quapaw was typical of the government snag boats that kept the river free of fallen trees and other debris that could snag or sink a steamboat or barge. Because the White River ran through heavy forests, snag-boating was very important to the early years of...
