Senator (sternwheeler)
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Senator was a stern-wheel-driven steamboat which operated on the Willamette River in the state of Oregon from 1863 to 1875. Senator is chiefly remembered for its having been destroyed in a fatal boile
News item, May 7, 1875
Advertisement for Senator and other steams, November 3, 1866.
Minnehaha (sternwheeler)
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Minnehaha was a sternwheel-driven steamboat which was built in 1866 on Oswego Lake, then known as Sucker Lake, in Oregon, United States. Minnehaha was later transferred to the Willamette and Columbia
Senator (sternwheeler)
…Oswego Lake was then known. The traveler would then stay overnight at Shade's Hotel in Oswego, and, the next morning, board a small sternwheeler, the Minnehaha. The lake boat then paddled across the water to the lake's western end, where it was reported, they would be taken to Colfax, on the Tualatin River “by…
Advertisement for auction of Minnehaha, September 4, 1871