Tag: travel
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The “Hannibal City” Sidewheeler
By Gregg Andrews The Hannibal City was a sidewheel steamboat named in honor of Missouri’s leading port north of St. Louis. The sidewheeler belonged to the fleet of the St. Louis & Keokuk Packet Company. On January 1, 1842, a group of St. Louis investors formed the packet company to operate on the Upper Mississippi…
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Food for Hannibal’s “river rats” and “negroes”
“I have never seen a store like it. Cluttered with heaps of cheap groceries of every description, shelves sagging under the weight of canned goods of ancient vintage, flour piled high in sacks on the plank floor, candy greasy with age, and cheese that swells and moves! Foodstuff rotting in barrels and in sacks, dirt…
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