Sign Up For News And Updates

Your Name and E-mail
First Name:
Last Name:
E-mail Address:
Sign up for the following:














Your Address and Mobile
Address:
City:
State:
ZIP:
Mobile Phone:

Riverboat: Lizzy Townsend

Transportation in Wheeling Icon
 ▶  WHEELING HISTORY  ▶  TRANSPORTATION   ▶   RIVERBOATS

▼ The Riverboat "Lizzy Townsend" Quicklinks

 ▼ History  |   ▼ Newspaper Articles   |   ▼ Photograph    

Lizzy Townsend

The Lizzie Townsend was built in 1882 by William Dillon. She was used as a railroad transfer vessel for the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad, (later the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad). She was destroyed in a back channel fire, Jan. 23, 1904.

Newspaper Articles

▶ First Trip of the Lizzy Townsend: Wheeling Intelligencer, September 28, 1882
▶ Lizzie Townsend Burns, 1904: Wheeling Intelligencer, July 9, 1959

Photograph

Wheeling Wharf in Winter

Riverboats  |  Transportation  |  Wheeling History Home  |  OCPL Home  

alt : OCPL Disclaimer

Services and Locations