City of Muskogee (Packet, 1908-1922)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard, 1908 cost $10,000
• BECAME: Loraine K, 1922
• OWNERS: 1908: Merchants of Muskogee, Oklahoma; Inman Packet Company; 1918: sold to New Orleans
• RIVERS: Arkansas River; White River; Black River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1107; She was built for the merchants of Muskogee, Oklahoma and on her first trip up the Arkansas was "on a grand tour with freight and tourists aboard". C.N. Haskell, who became governor of Oklahoma was one of the Muskogee persons who built her. She ran between Webbers Falls, Oklahoma (the river landing for Muskogee) and Fort Smith, Arkansas. Low water and lack of freight defeated the project and she lay near Muskogee several years, then was bought by Inman Packet Company. They ran her Newport, Arkansas to Black Rock, Arkansas on the White and Black rivers. She later ran Newport-Colver Bend to the F.W. Tucker plantation 25 miles below Black Rock. Then ran Crocketts Bluff to Rosedale, Mississippi handling rice for reshipment on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. Sold in 1918 to New Orleans, she was renamed Loraine K in 1922