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Day: August 27, 2018

Searching for the Mountain Lily – Part 1, History

Posted on August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 By Tom 1 Comment on Searching for the Mountain Lily – Part 1, History
History and Genealogy

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While browsing through the mountain of posts on Reddit I came across a link on the Asheville Subreddit about the “Mountain Lily”, a river boat that once plied the French Broad River between Brevard and Asheville in the 1880s. This was the first time I’d heard of the boat and I wanted to know more about it. That brief post launched me into my first RandomConnections obsessive trek since I got back from Washington. That obsession would involve research, a photo trek, and a river paddling trip. First though, some background about the ill-fated riverboat billed as the “Highest Steamboat in America.”

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