Old Ferry Boat Landing Sites

[Gypsy Heart]

Alot of abandoned sites makes for good hunting!

SEATTLE
http://nwhighways.amhosting.net/i90page_noframes.html

Ft. Vermilion Peace River
http://www.lascruces.com/~swede/peace/car-5th.html

Price Creek Southport Islands NC
http://www.bansemer.com/north_carolina_lighthouses/prices_creek_lighthouse.htm

Gaines Landing TN
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/RPT_EDO1.HTM

RiverBoats, Colorado Utah
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/p63/P0063.txt

KANSAS
http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/kscoll/lochist/thennow/TN62.htm

Lees Ferry
http://www.gcrg.org/bqr/17-1/inscriptions.html

Lake Washington
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2638

Walnut Eddy WI
http://www.wyalusing.org/activity/hiking.htm

Witches Gulch WI
http://www.explorewisconsin.com/countypages/sauk.html

Long Island NY
http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Town/Ferry/ferries.html

Cockers Landing Washington
http://www.pacificcohistory.org/sw1989_4.htm

 

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[snake35]

Your a great researcher! Do you spend much time in the field? I do more book work during cold weather then do the field work in the spring and summer. Thanks and good luck.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I try to spend all the time in the field that I can during the warmer months...I keep journals,talk to alot of people and travel extensively...then during the winter I try to catagorize all my journal notes,spend hours in the library and dusty basements of courthouses and museums, double check to see if there are websites on my notes to make peoples lifes easier, and plan my next summers journeys and the sites I want to hunt. I do alot of independant research,on a number of things,not just treasure and always seem to run into a new story or place I want to hunt.I often find that I have way to many places to hunt and not enough time....so I try to share as much as I can with the folks in this forum so that they may be able to go hunt a site I have heard about or been to. And if I find, say like an abandonned tunnel...then it gets me thinking...well there must be more...and this leads to me trying to find more on the same subject.....
I have been working on a ghost town that in June I will be at,gridding and mapping the area as well as complete excavation and writing on . So I have been doing alot of research on that area and will be living in the camper for most of the summer , far far from anyone! Which is great,because the river that its on will provide plenty of fly-fishing opportunity Hahaha
Now I have a question for you...is that your picture in your avatar or do you really look like Johnny Cash

 

[snake35]

No thats not my picture, I dropped my digital camera in the Levisa fork of the Big Sandy river while searching for the John Swift silver mines. I spend a lot of time in the hills, but I enjoy researching a wide variety of stuff not just treasure. I have dropped out of the rat race and finally learned to enjoy life. Good luck and good hunting.

 

[MichaelB]

Gypsey, I thought you might enjoy this photo from the early 1900's. Marlowe is named after my family. This ferry was used by Union troops to cross the river on their way to the Battle of Spanish Fort. The river looks the same. The ferry has been replaced by a boat launch and there are mini beach houses all along the bank.

MichaelB

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Wow thanks for sharing that photo...Where is this at? What river?TownThanks

 

[MichaelB]

Sorry. I should have been more specific. This is Marlowe Alabama in Baldwin County Alabama. The river is Fish River. I will post a "now" photo so you can see what 100 yrs has done to the site.

MichaelB