Eagle Packet News Today

Warsaw Historical Society’s Mondays at the Museum featured steamers, towboats, and the Eagle Packet Line at its meeting. The well-received Mondays at the Museum history discussions are averaging nine attendees,

Sharing history, including personal stories, continues at the Warsaw Historical Society. The Mondays at the Museum sessions average nine enthusiastic history buffs who enjoy discussing their family members’ involvements in

The latest Eagle Fabrication barge, a 160- by 60- by 10-foot heavy-duty barge, was launched June 6 into the Mississippi River at Sauget, Ill.

Alton Slough on the Upper Mississippi River was long a popular mooring place for steamboats to take refuge from ice and other rigors of winter.

Famous for its prolific orchards, which produce peaches in summer and apples in the autumn, Calhoun County, Ill., has a long history involving steamboats.

December 15, 2020 By In 1883, for a contract price of $16,750, the Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind., built the Benton McMillin, a modest packet boat named in honor of the Tennessee congressman, who later served as governor of the state from 1899 until 1903. McMillin (1845–1933) was noted for being an old-line Democrat who was a staunch advocate of low tariffs. Constructed on a wooden hull measuring 155 feet in length by 3...