Lone Star (towboat)

Lone Star
Career
Launched: 1868
Out of service: 21 April 1968
Status: Museum ship
General characteristics
Length:68.4 ft (20.8 m) (as built)
84 ft (26 m) (1890)
90 ft (27 m) (1922)
Beam:19.3 ft (5.9 m) (as built)
20 ft (6.1 m) (1890)
24.5 ft (7.5 m) (1922)
Depth:3.2 ft (0.98 m) (as built)
4.1 ft (1.2 m) (1922)
Lone Star (tow boat)
Location LeClaire, Iowa
Coordinates 41°35′53.89″N 90°20′33.2″W / 41.5983028°N 90.342556°WCoordinates: 41°35′53.89″N 90°20′33.2″W / 41.5983028°N 90.342556°W
Built 1868
Architect Multiple
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 89002461
Significant dates
Added to NRHP 20 December 1989[1]
Designated NHL 20 December 1989[2]

Lone Star is a wooden hull, steam-powered paddlewheel towboat in LeClaire, Iowa, USA. She is dry docked and on display at the Buffalo Bill Museum in LeClaire. Lone Star was declared a National Historic Landmark on 20 December 1989.[2][3]

History

Lone Star came off the ways at Lyons, Iowa in 1869. Originally the boat was a wood burning side-wheeler. In 1890 she was remodeled and reconfigured as a stern-wheeler. Lone Star was remodeled a second time in 1899 at the Kahlke Boat Yards in Rock Island, Illinois and again in 1922. On 21 April 1968, Lone Star was placed out of service. She was the last running and is now the last remaining intact wood hull paddlewheel boat that plied the Mississippi River.

Photo Gallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "LONE STAR (Towboat)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
  3. ↑ Foster, Kevin J. (10 July 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Towboat Lone Star" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-09-04. and
    "Accompanying 4 photos, from 1899, 1940, 1942, and 1989" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-09-04.

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