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"The Mountain Lilly, Hendersonville, N.C.." (P649), Jody Barber Photographic Collection,  D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804
Title The Mountain Lily, Hendersonville, N.C.
Creator/
Photographer		 Jody Barber
Identifier http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/photo/barber/pages/lily_riverboat.html
Subject Keyword :
Jody Barber ; boats ; Hendersonville, N.C. ; transportation ; tourism ; French Broad River ; steamboats 
Subject LCSH :
North Carolina -- History
North Carolina -- Architecture
Tourism and travel -- North Carolina
Henderson County (N.C.) -- History
Hendersonville (N.C.) -- History
Steamboats -- History -- North Carolina
Steam-navigation -- History -- North Carolina
Inventors -- North Carolina
Description The Mountain Lily 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 Lily 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".
Publisher D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor Barber family
Date 2001-11-04
Type Image
Format Scanned image, 72 dpi, 500 x 387 pixels, manipulated,  from original 4" x 5" negative ; also, 8 x 10 print.
Source  P78.5.1
Marks none
Condition Good
Relation Jody Barber Photographic Collection. See also, Henry G. Pettitt, "The Saga of Mountain Lily," in Steamboat Bill, Vol 50, issue 1, Spring 1993, pp. 35-37 and Frank L. Fitzsimons, From the Banks of the Oklawaha, Vol. I-II, 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 creators 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.(barberN654,657), D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Southern Highland Research Center staff, 1978 and Special Collections staff, 2001.
Last updated 2001-11-04

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