Lyle,

Those measurements should be made available to the Town of Scottsville.
They, so I believe, will be creating an upper works replica for their canal
basin park..

Tom Kastner

"Lyle E. Browning" wrote:

> On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 10:28 AM, W. Scott Smith wrote:
>
> >> It covers in 32 pages the
> >> history all the way from George Washington to the rotting hulk of the
> >> last
> >> packet boat, which finally returned to dust near Lynchburg.
> >
> > I should add that the iron hull of the Packet Boat Marshall has
> > not -completely-
> > returned to dust...yet. A portion of it lies in state at Riverside
> > Park (off
> > of Rivermont Avenue) in Lynchburg.
> >
> The front 45 feet of an iron-hulled packet boat is on display at the
> 12th street Power Plant in Richmond, although for how much longer due
> to renovation is problematical. During the 1983-1985 James Center
> excavations, we also got a nearly complete packet boat, iron-hulled,
> with the wood interior from which we were finally able to get some
> measurements and ideas about what went where. That, sadly, awaits funds
> for write-up.
>
> Lyle Browning
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