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A Tragedy Greatly Unnoticed

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A Tragedy Greatly Unnoticed

May 1, 2026

Mid-to-late April 1865 was full of news. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the hunt for and eventual killing of his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was ongoing, and the Civil… Read More

The Unfortunate J.C. Rawn, Part 2 Aerial shot of the J.C. Rawn exploding at Huntington. (Author’s collection)

The Unfortunate J.C. Rawn, Part 2

April 7, 2024

In the last column we looked at the steamer J.C. Rawn (Way’s T1236), built by Howard in 1911 as the H.S. Chamberlain for the Roane Iron Company and… Read More