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New Orleans (steamboat)
Mississippi and Ohio River steamboat (1811–1814) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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