In Pittsburgh, Meriwether Lewis waits for the completion of barge prior to departing down the Ohio River. Another traveler, F. André Michaux, tells of an ocean-going ship built there in 1802.
Shipbuilding
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Ocean Going Ship
On my journey to Pittsburgh in the month of July 1802, there was a three-mast vessel of two hundred and fifty tons; and a smaller one of ninety, which was on the point of being finished. These ships were to go, in the spring following, to New Orleans, loaded with the produce of the country, after having made a passage of two thousand two hundred miles before they got into the ocean.
[Note:] I have been informed since my return, that this ship, named the Pittsburgh, was arrived at Philadelphia.
—François André Michaux[1]François André Michaux, Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains (1805 reprint from London edition), p. 63–4 in Reuben G. Thwaites, Travels West of the Alleghanies (Cleveland: The Arthur H. … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | François André Michaux, Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains (1805 reprint from London edition), p. 63–4 in Reuben G. Thwaites, Travels West of the Alleghanies (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1904), p. 160. |
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