Albany (1868 sternwheeler)
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Albany was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the Willamette River from 1868 to 1875. This vessel should not be confused with the later sternwheeler Albany, which ran, also on the Willame
Steamers Shoo Fly (left) and Albany (right) at boat basin in Oregon City, circa 1873.
Advertisement dated Sept. 1, 1868, for steamers of the People's Transportation Company, including the then new Albany.
Steamers Albany (left) and Alice (right), at boat basin in Oregon City, Oregon, circa 1874.
Alice (sternwheeler)
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Alice was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the 1870s and 1880s. Alice was the largest vessel built above Willamette Falls and was considered in its
Albany (1868 sternwheeler)
…all intermediate points. Albany was then owned by the Oregon Steamship Company, which also ran other steamers on the upper Willamette from Oregon City: Alice to Corvallis twice a week, Dayton, to the cities of Dayton, Lafayette, and McMinnville, all on the Yamhill River, and Fannie Patton, to Albany, twice…
Gov. Grover, rival sternwheeler to Alice, shown in the then newly completed Willamette Locks, March 1873.
The boat basin at Oregon City in 1867. The steamers Alice and Shoo Fly were moored near here in 1873 when both vessels were nearly destroyed by fire.
Advertisement for Willamette River steamers, including Alice, August 31, 1874.