The Ferryboat Landing - New Haven, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 36.938 W 091° 12.874
15S E 655442 N 4275635
Ferry boats and steamboats landing kept this town alive.
Waymark Code: WMJX1M
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/09/2014
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County of marker: Franklin County
Location of marker: Levee walk, behind the Miller's Land Bed & Breakfast, Main St., New Haven
Marker erected by New Haven Chamber of Commerce
Sign sponsored by: The New Haven Area Chamber of Commerce
Photo: of the "Tilda-Clara provided by New Haven Preservation Society
Marker Text:
"The Ferryboat Landing:
"For nearly a century ferryboats docked along the river bank below. Beginning in 1831, at a site one mile west of here called Griswold City, a ferryboat poled across the river daily. By the late 1800's ferryboats were making hourly trips from New Haven to Warren County. Residents north of the river living in the communities of Pinckney, Piers, Treloar, and Smith Creek used the ferry for travel to New Haven to shop and socialize. High School students used the ferry to attend school in New Haven.
"Built with paddlewheels, the early boats were powered by steam engines fueled with wood. The most unusual ferryboat, the "Tilda-Clara", circa 1900, was powered by a team of horses which walked on a treadmill and turned the paddlewheel.. Later boats used gasoline engines and carried automobiles and their passengers.
Olive Street, then called Ferry Street, led from the ferryboat to Front Street and the railroad station. Many New Haven businesses, including Grannemann's General Store located along this street benefited from ferryboat traffic. With the completion of the Missouri River bridge at Washington in 1936 ferryboat service was discontinued. Today there is little contact between residents living on opposite sides of the river.