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 > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html