First Coast Steamboat Days
By Ed Mueller
Hardcover 242 pages 8.75 x 11.25”
(2005)
$34.95
For many years, Ed Mueller has extensively researched
steamboats that plied Florida waters. Several books setting forth
some of the activities of those vessels have been previously
pbublished, including two on the St. Johns River and one on the
Ocklawaha River.
Published by the Jacksonville Historical Society, this
book relates histsorical accounts of travel by steamboat on the St.
Johns and also steamboat travel from Charleston and Savannah to reach
Northeasta Florida. The period covered is from the 1820s to 1890,
when railroads had taken over most of the state's transportation.
This book will be useful to anyone interested in finding out what
steamboat days were like in Florida.
Edward A. Mueller is a
professional engineer whose specialty has been the field of
transportation. He was Florida's first secretary of transportation
and came to Jacksonville to run the Jacksonville
Transportation Authorityhas. He has spent a lifetime researching
and writing about steamships and steamboats. A former editor of Steamboat
Bill, he has written a number of books, mostly recently Queen
of Sea Routes: The Merchants and Miners Transportation Company, for
the Steamship Historical Society of America. Mr. Mueller received the
Steamship Historical Society of America's Samuel Ward Stanton
Award For Lifetime Achievement for the year 2000.
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