Steamboats

<html><img alt=“Sternwheeler Gordon C. Greene, February 1950” src=“https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/29815/0” width=“200” align=“right” title=“Sternwheeler Gordon C. Greene, February 1950”></html> Boone County was home to a budding steamboat industry in the 1820s. A total of four steamboats were produced at Big Bone between 1824 and 1827, when the white oak timber gave out.