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
Steamers Alice, center, and Albany at left circa 1874, at Oregon City. Across the falls can be seen the then new ship canal and locks.
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.
Fannie Patton
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Fanny Patton was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the Willamette River, in Oregon, starting in August 1865. This steamer operated from 1865 to 1880 for various owners, and was a conside
Alice (sternwheeler)
…recently been amusing themselves by shooting the geese as the steamer passed by his place up and down the river. In February 1874, three steamers, Alice, Fannie Patton, and Albany, were all engaged in transporting wheat from Eugene City and other points downriver to Salem Flour Mills, owned by Robert Crouch Kinney…
Advertisement for Fannie Patton and other boats of the Oregon Steamship Company, published July 24, 1874