Ferry Steamer 'Peosta'

PEOSTA

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/13/2011 at 18:32:32

Dubuque Daily Times, December 24, 1857

Ferry Steamer ‘Peosta’

Already has the ferry steamer ‘Peosta’-a favorite name hereaway-begun to vibrate to and fro, from shore to shore, like the grand pendulum it is, forever timing the march of western emigration. During three months of last year, more than eight thousand men, with their wives and their children and all that they had, were swung over thereby to the Iowa shore, and radiated away to kindle the light of new homes in the young state. Every day it pays the tribute of clear heads and strong hands to the present wealth of the population.