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The Anchor Line
- The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.
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Founded more than 200 years ago in 1817, it is one of the oldest passenger cruise lines in the world (keep in mind the first steamboat, the New Orleans, launched just six years earlier in 1811.) Then, back in 1972, Wilbur’s son (Matthew’s father) Bill Dow founded The New Orleans Steamboat Company.
The larger indoor/outdoor location at 600 Decatur Street sports beautiful décor and an opulent bar. Everyone enjoys the spirit of New Orleans at Café Beignet. Listen to the sounds of the Steamboat Willie Jazz Band at the Bourbon Street location and a variety of live music at the other locations. Watch for the newest 2020 location on Canal Street.
New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States. Her 1811–1812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ushered in the era of commercial steamboat navigation on the western and mid-western continental rivers.
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The New Orleans arrived in New Orleans on Jan. 10, 1812. Later that month, the steamboat began her profitable career providing transportation between New Orleans and Natchez.
The first Natchez was a low pressure sidewheel steamboat built in New York City in 1823. It originally ran between New Orleans and Natchez, Mississippi, and later catered to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Its most notable passenger was the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolutionary War, in 1825. Fire destroyed her, while in ...
