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| Title | Mountain Lilly Steamboat |
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/photo/barber/barber649.htm |
| Creator | Jody Barber |
| Alt. Creator | A.F. Baker |
| Subject | Keyword
: A. F. Baker ; Jody Barber, Sr. |
| Subject | LCSH
: Barber, Jody, Sr. Baker, A.F Hendersonville (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works |
| Description | The Mountain Lilly steamboat was constructed in 1881 to carry passengers and freight between the junction of the Oklawaha River and the French Broad River, to just east of Brevard, NC, a distance of some seventeen miles. The vessel was the central capital of the French Broad Steamboat Company, owned by Col. S. V. Pickens of Hendersonville. The steamboat was designed to link Brevard, Hendersonville and Asheville. The Mountain Lilly was 90 feet long with two decks and staterooms to accommodate 100 passengers. On the maiden voyage it held some 100 people, friends of Pickens, but was never successful in showing a profit. The Company tried several other ventures with the steamboat, but all were unsuccessful. A flash flood in 1885 pulled the boat from the mooring at Banner Farm Road and it became mired in a sand bar near King's Bridge near the current Haywood Road in the 1880's. The boat was sold for salvage and her wood was used to build the Horseshoe Baptist Church. and her bell was hung in the church belfry. See, Henry G. Pettitt, "The Saga of Mountain Lily," in Steamboat Bill, Spring 1993, pp. 35-37, for complete details on the "Lily". |
| Date | 2003-04-16 |
| Publisher | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Contributor | Jody Barber, Jr. and family ; Southern Highlands Research Center |
| Type | Collection ; Text |
| Format | One document box ; 22 photographic prints, 4 8 X 10 negatives, 4 photograph album pages ; 22 positive prints taken from original glass plate negatives ; 4 negatives, 4 original photograph album pages with miscellaneous prints (recto and verso), one 90 min. audio tape (included in the SHRC oral histories collection). |
| Source | P78.5.1.barber649 |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Related to SHRC Jody Barber, Sr. Oral History ; R.H. Scadin Photographic Collection [photographs and diaries] ; E. M. Ball Photographic Collection [photographs of Hendersonville area and Barber orchards] ; various oral histories. See also: Gresham, Dorothy. "A Mountain Village of the Southland [Hendersonville]," Catholic World. Vol. 56, issue 332, Nov. 1892, pp. 158-164 and Henry G. Pettitt, "The Saga of Mountain Lily," in Steamboat Bill, Spring 1993, pp. 35-37. For history of Hendersonville see, Frank L. Fitzsimons, From the Banks of the Oklawaha, Hendersonville, NC: Golden Glow Pub. Co. 1976-79. |
| Coverage | c.1880's - 1920's ; Hendersonville, NC |
| Rights | Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | Donor Number 46 |
| Acquisition | 1978-10-09 |
| Citation | Jody Barber Photographic Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Southern Highlands Research Center staff 1978 and Special Collections staff 2001 |
