WOODLAND - A large silhouette of a sternwheeler will be the long-awaited piece of downtown art, after contractors pointed out that the miniature replica of a boat built for Hoffman Plaza would an easy target for vandals and metal thieves.
The city, once America's busiest inland port, used to be the home port for the 82-year-old sternwheeler, which is shutting down because Congress has refused to grant another exemption from a federal safety law that bans overnight passengers on boats with a wooden superstructure. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Further, it was known that they had quarrelled just previous to pulling out; for the Lizzie, a wheezy ten-ton sternwheeler, twenty-four hours behind, beat Leclère in by three days. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I love the look of a classic antebellum steamboat, and the artist here actually got it right and gave me a sidewheeler, not a sternwheeler. ❋ Grrm (2010)
Not that he expected to see anything as technologically advanced as a steamship or sternwheeler. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The name on the bow of the sleek sternwheeler was Undaunted. ❋ Patricia Calvert (2002)
He had seen a cruising sternwheeler on the Ohio River that took passengers for nostalgic rides during the summer. ❋ Norton, Andre (1973)
About a mile beyond the wreck of the sternwheeler, their party turned aside from the riverbank, to shortly after climb a rise overlooking fields. ❋ Norton, Andre (1973)
That same afternoon, I, with three other correspondents, was allowed to take passage on barge No. 9, which, with two giassas, was taken in tow up to Wady Halfa by a sternwheeler. ❋ Bennet Burleigh (N/A)
Further, it was known that they had quarreled just previous to pulling out; for the "Lizzie," a wheezy ten-ton sternwheeler, twenty-four hours behind, beat Leclère in by three days. ❋ Unknown (1902)
Although Livingston had previously ridden as a passenger on Morey's sternwheeler at the rate of five miles an hour, yet he had turned a deaf ear when his partner in experimentation, Nicholas ❋ Archer Butler Hulbert (1903)
England, where a steamboat had navigated the Thames in 1801 and a year later the famous sternwheeler Charlotte Dundas had towed boats of 140 tons 'burden on the Forth and Clyde Canal at the rate of five miles an hour. ❋ Archer Butler Hulbert (1903)
The Muskingum river runs through my city too and we have our own sternwheeler here, the Lorena. ❋ The (Parkersburg (2010)
Levin said the 83-year-old sternwheeler sank sometime late Friday night or early Saturday morning, and the top two decks had collapsed onto the boat's main deck. ❋ The (Parkersburg (2010)
A Coast Guard helicopter and two boats rushed to the scene and a tugboat successfully freed the sternwheeler and towed it to Willamette Park in Portland. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Oh my God, [Becky], look at her [butt]. It is SO BIG. I'd love to give [that thing] a sternwheeler. ❋ BeerMonkey75 (2017)
Nowadays people have to have [slot machines] and [Texas hold em] on board when they get on a [sternwheeler], otherwise they will get bored in 15 minutes. ❋ Solid Mantis (2018)
