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• Flatboats were constructed to haul produce downstream, such as whiskey, chickens, or corn.

• A flatboat required a crew of five to 20 men to steer it and guide it.

• Abraham Lincoln took a flatboat down the Mississippi in 1828.

• River transport by rafts or flatboats was considered to be difficult, hazardous, and costly.

• Then they began their trip by flatboat and steamer in 1836.

• The steamboat also changed the nature of flatboat crews, making them more professional and more skilled.

• Early on, the river became an important industrial shipping route, with lead, iron, and timber being sent downstream by flatboat and shallow-draft steamboat.

• A flatboat is almost always a one-way vessel, and is usually dismantled for lumber when it reaches its downstream destination.

• The flatboat trade before the war of 1812 was less organized and less professional than the later flatboat trade.

• Logging and flatboat construction were the initial chief industries.

• He had previously descended both rivers in a flatboat to obtain information.

• The flatboat was the cheapest mode of transportation for settlers and was mainly used for shorter one-way trips to their homes and then eventually broken down and used for lumber.

• Rather than use locks, the canal was built with an unusual inclined plane to transport 20ft m by 60ft m flatboats over the falls.

• A pier was built to accommodate flatboats and barges that could make it up the shallow slough.

• The whaleboat was faster on the water, and was about a mile (1.6 km) ahead of the flatboats when it reached the ambush site.

• He eventually owned several flatboats of his own.

• The block house (small forts) construction material were more often moved on rafts called flatboats.

• The river in front of the city was filled with steamboats, flatboats, and sailing ships.

• The mill provided locals with flour ground from corn and wheat that was grown locally and shipped up the stream on flatboats.