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Transportation (continued - 2) A hand drawn ferry was usually found on well traveled roads where the ferry owner could make enough money to allow him to be on call day or night. He usually lived on the river bank near the road.
Travel by water was usually safer than the lonely wild Keel boats, flat bottom boats, and sail boats were all used. Many were homemade and outfitted for special jobs.
Between the years of 1830 and 1840, known as the golden steamboat era, more than fifty different steamers moved up and down the river between Columbus, Georgia, and Apalachicola, Florida. Passenger fare for a 720 mile round trip, including meals and a stateroom cost $9.00. This price did not change until the beginning of the Twentieth Century. |
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erness trails. So boats of every size and shape were built to transport a variety of cargos. 
