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Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
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    • Creator: Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889.
    • Date Created: 1863-04-04
    • Description: Writes of traveling by the steamer Long Island from City Point to Fort Monroe, of how woebegone City Point looks due to bombing, seeing the Confederate flag flying, searching the Confederate prisoners, finding many Union items, such as canteens and haversacks which were taken from them, of prisoners being paroled as no Union soldiers ready yet to be exchanged. He also mentions seeing naval ships at Newport News, and where the Regiment might go next.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Valentine G. Barney Correspondence


    Lyman Barton to Melissa Barton
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      • Creator: Barton, Lyman, 1839-1936.
      • Date Created: 1863-03-15
      • Description: Lyman Barton writes of his travels from Fredericksburg to Newport News via a steamer, and then on to Suffolk. While at Newport News he saw a monitor and the U.S.S. Galena, as well as the wrecks of the U.S.S. Merrimack (C.S.S. Virginia) and the U.S.S. Cumberland and U.S.S. Congress. He also comments on the lack of alcohol available to the troops and that while he is not a drinker, he is ‚Äúas bad can be‚Äù and that it is ‚Äúhard spoiling a rotten egg.‚Äù
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Barton Family Correspondence


      Donovan Construction Company, Burlington
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        • Date Created: 1944-05-14
        • Description: May 14, 1944. SC 1506. Sponsor's Party. Mrs. Lewis F. Olson is seen hand clasped standing closest to the champagne bottle suspended from above. Ship built by Donovan Construction Company of St. Paul, Minn. at the Shelburne Shipyard in Vermont. Company locally called Donovan Contracting. Far right the steamboat Ticonderoga is docked. Photo #4. See also mcalA10F07i10
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


        Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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          • Date Created: 1955-01-28
          • Description: January 28, 1955. Double railroad tracks are laid out in front of the Ticonderoga steamship. Curves had to be accommodated along the terrain as it made its way to the Shelburne Museum and its final resting place. Photo 110.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


          Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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            • Date Created: 1955-02-18
            • Description: February 18, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga navigates a curve on its overland route from Shelburne Bay to the Shelburne Museum.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


            Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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              • Date Created: 1955-04-05
              • Description: April 5, 1955. Steamship Ticonderoga meets the Rutland Railroad. The route taken to transport the boat overland crossed the railroad tracks. The northbound freight train waits as the ship inches its way across pulled by winches. By 5:22 pm the boat cleared the tracks. Photo 154.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


              Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                • Date Created: 1955-03-08
                • Description: March 8, 1955. A helicopter flies over the steamship Ticonderoga as the paddle-boat makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversaw the boat's overland journey. Photo 146.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                  • Date Created: 1955-04-12
                  • Description: April 12, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga is positioned in the berthing basin on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum. The paddle-boat has traveled 9250 feet from Shelburne Bay overland to its final resting place. Photo 163.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                  Vermont [Steamboat]
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                    • Description: The steamboat Vermont III rests in its dry dock cradle as it is maneuvered out of the waters of Lake Champlain. Late 1920s, early 1930?
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                    Donovan Construction Company, Burlington
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                      • Date Created: 1944-04-16
                      • Description: April 16, 1944 Sub-chaser SC 1504 onto Lake Champlain Built by Donovan Construction Company of St. Paul, Minn. at the Shelburne Shipyard in Vermont. Company locally called Donovan Contracting. Seen to the far right is the steamboat Ticonderoga, that traveled on the lake from Burlington, Vt to Port Kent, NY until 1953. Photo #4.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs