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Golden Age of Sternwheeler Steamboats St Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers

The history of water hyacinth management in Florida is inextricably connected to the steamboat traffic on the St Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers and other inland navigable waters of Florida.

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Golden Age of Sternwheeler Steamboats St Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers

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  1. The history of water hyacinth management in Florida is inextricably connected to the steamboat traffic on the St Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers and other inland navigable waters of Florida. Water hyacinth was reportedly introduced into the St Johns River near Palatka in the 1880s, and by the turn of the century was interfering with steamboat traffic. Dense hyacinth mats prevented steamers from accessing the docks at Palatka and drifting mats were reported to push steamers off course as they traversed Lake George. Congress authorized the US Army Corps of Engineers to begin removing water hyacinth obstructions from southeastern waters in 1899. By the 1920s, railroads replaced steamboats as the primary mode of transportation in Florida, bringing the age of steamboat transportation to an abrupt end: however, the legacy of water hyacinth grows on in Florida navigable rivers and public lakes.

  2. Golden Age of Sternwheeler Steamboats St Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers Palatka - Silver Springs 1870-1920 Principal SteamboatsOn Line Marion 1871 Okeehumkee 1873 Osceola 1874 Tuscawilla 1875 Water hyacinth introduced into St Johns River near Palatka - 1880s Astatula 1881 Waunita 1882 Eureka 1890 Metamora 1893 Hiawatha 1904

  3. Okahumkee - Ocklawaha River - 1880s

  4. Steamer Metamora - Ocklawaha River - 1895

  5. Steamer Osceola Ocklawaha River 1896

  6. Kissimmee Waterfront - Lake Toho - 1890s

  7. 1900 - The Golden Age of Water Hyacinth Begins in Florida

  8. St Johns River - Abandoned Pilot Boy - Palatka

  9. Steamer Metamora on the Ocklawaha River

  10. Metamora on the bottom in Palatka - 1880s

  11. Steamboat Everglades in water hyacinth- St Johns River - 1898

  12. Steamer Alligator - Palatka - 1899

  13. Hyacinth - Jacksonville RR Yard - Post 1890s Hurricane

  14. River bridge

  15. Crows Bluff Ferry - St Johns River - 1900

  16. Lake Okeechobee - 1910s

  17. City Dock - Lake Toho - 1910s

  18. Lake Toho - 1915

  19. Fisheating Creek - 1917

  20. Hickey Creek - 1917

  21. St Johns River - Palatka - 1920s

  22. Lake Toho Pier - Kissimmee - 1920s

  23. Ocklawaha River loggers 1920s

  24. Steamer Lillie - Everglades - 1925

  25. City Dock - Lake Toho - 1925

  26. Tsala Apopka - 1925

  27. Estero River 1926

  28. Green Cove Springs - 1931

  29. St. Johns River - 1931

  30. St Johns River 1931

  31. Lake Harris - Venetian Gardens construction - 1935

  32. Hillsborough River

  33. Jammed Canal - 1946

  34. Fishing amongst the hyacinths - 1946

  35. Paddling in hyacinth and lettuce 1947

  36. St Johns River at Deland - 1947

  37. Homosassa Springs 1947

  38. Lake Lochloosa 1949

  39. Suwannee River - 1950

  40. Lake Jackson - Tallahassee - 1951

  41. St Johns River - Tocoi - 1950s

  42. Kissimmee Boatacade - 1954

  43. Lake Okeechobee lock - 1961

  44. St Johns River 1962

  45. Water hyacinth and lettuce - Withlacoochee River - Dunnellon - 1963

  46. Apalachicola - 1965

  47. Apalachicola - 1966

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