Steamboat Caloosa on Lake Monore

Steamboat Caloosa on Lake Monore

Steamboat Caloosa

Photography--Florida--History

Steamboats--Florida--Saint Johns River--History

Lake Monroe (Seminole County and Volusia County, Fla.)

Steamships

St. Johns River (Fla.)

Water transportation

The Caloosa was one of many steamboats that operated along the St. Johns River during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Steamboats first appeared on the St. Johns in the 1860s. During the next several decades, the St. Johns River became Florida's first major tourist attraction for vacationing Northerners. The river became the state's first "highway", enabling homesteaders to move into the central part of the state. The steamboat era on the St. John's came to an end in the 1880s with the introduction of the Central Florida Railroad.

Ensminger, Jefferson Clay

Ensminger Brothers

ca. 1900-1910

Original glass plate negative by Jefferson Clay Ensminger.

Digital reproduction of reproduced glass plate negative by Jefferson Clay Ensminger.

Orange County Bicentennial Committee (Fla.). More Than a Memory. Orlando, Fla: Orange County Bicentennial Committee, 1975.

Orange County Bicentennial Committee (Fla.). More Than a Memory. Orlando, Fla: Orange County Bicentennial Committee, 1975.

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Sanford, Florida

28.843952, -81.262896

1900-01-01/1910-12-31

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Originally created and owned by Jefferson Clay Ensminger.

Morton, Dave

"Water's Journey: The River Returns,  Stories of the Great St. Johns." Karst Productions, Inc. http://www.theriverreturns.org/explore/history/text/19/.

Orange County Bicentennial Committee (Fla.). More Than a Memory. Orlando, Fla: Orange County Bicentennial Committee, 1975.

De Berard, Ella Teague. Steamboats in the Hyacinths. Daytona Beach, Fla: College Pub. Co, 1956.

"Steamboats." Museum of Seminole County History, Seminole County, Florida Government. http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/core/fileparse.php/3338/urlt/steamboats.pdf.

Bass, Bob. When Steamboats Reigned in Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.

Mueller, Edward A. "Steamboat Activity in Florida During the Second Seminole Indian War,"Florida Historical Quarterly 64, no. 4 (April 1986): pp.407-431.

Robinson, Jim, "Exhibit Brings toLife 19th-century River Adventures," The Orlando Sentinel February 7, 1993. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-02-07/news/9302060607_1_steamboats-sanford-lund

"Water's Journey: The River Returns,  Stories of the Great St. Johns"

"Steamboats"

"Steamboat Activity in Florida During the Second Seminole Indian War"

"Exhibit Brings to Life 19th-century River Adventures"

CALOOSA
ENSMINGER-PHOTO.

1 glass plate negative