Jessie (Packet/Towboat, 1870-1902)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/Towboat
• BUILT: Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1870
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Oak Ridge Mine, 1902
• OWNERS: Tobias W. Spencer, Gallipolis, Ohio, and James H. Price, Covington, Kentucky; Captain Anthony Wayne Carner, Russell, Kentucky (1878)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Dan L. Thomas
• RIVERS: Kanawha River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1365; Towed produce boats; later worked as a towboat out of Pomeroy Bend and Kanawha River. She burned at Oak Ridge Mine, Kanawha River, April 22, 1902