1900s, Photo Search
The cotton wagons on Front Street wait while the cotton buyers move among them grading the fiber and deciding which bales to buy for their employers in northern mills. To the left is the old train depot where the buyers could have their newly purchase bales loaded up...
1890s, Photo Search
Built at Newport in 1890 by the Morrison-Decker Company, the steamboat A.R. Bragg was the largest boat built at Newport, displacing 162 net tons. A packet boat, it was smaller than the standard steamboat and could run further up the smaller shallower rivers. It ran...
1900s, Photo Search
From the Butler Center Collection.
