Ohio (Packet, 1908-1916)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1898 at Clarington, Ohio
• FORMERLY: Avalon
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned in the mouth of the Little Kanawha River on February 2, 1916
• OWNERS: Captains William E. Roe, Martin F. Noll and Ben S. Pope (1907)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Edwin F. Maddy (master, 1908-1909); Harry Maddy (clerk, 1908-1909); Ed Dunaway (clerk, 1908-1909); Charles W. Knox (clerk, 1911); G.M. Knox (clerk, 1911); Captain W.C. Lepper (1915); Captain Billy Stapleton (1915); Captain Connie McGee
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River; Monongahela River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4274; The Avalon was sold at a U.S. Marshal at Parkersburg in August 1907 for $9,800 and was renamed Ohio. She ran Pittsburgh-Charleston in 1908 and beginning in January 1909, she ran Pittsburgh-Cincinnati. She had light draft and once made five round trips with two inches on the marks at Franklin, Pennsylvania. In 1909 she went up the Monongahela to McKeesport, Pennsylvania to retrieve a cargo of oil well casing. In the fall of 1913 she discontinued the trade. In the summer of 1914 she ran excursions in the Wheeling area and that September she ran a "Booster Trip" Pittsburgh-Huntington under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. In early 1915 she made a Mardi Gras trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. From New Orleans she loaded up for Memphis. In the summer of 1915 she ran Cincinnati-Memphis. She connected with the Joe Fowler for Pittsburgh. She had returned to Parkersburg when she burned in February 1916
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The Ohio docked at the Memphis waterfront