Florence, Ind. River Traffic 1868

In 1868, someone signing as "Wharf Boat' made this report about the river traffic on the Ohio River from Florence, Switzerland County, for the prior year. This account, along with other cities and towns that responded, were printed in a Congressional report in 1871.


Third Session. Forty First Congress, Executive Documents printed by the order of the House of Representatives 1870-71. Washington, Government Printing Office. 1871.


In answer to your circular, would say that four steamboats land here daily; one plies between Cincinnati and this place, making a round trip every day; cannot estimate closely the number of passengers. There have been shipped from here during the past year: 2,000 tons baled hay, 200 tons baled straw, 1,000 barrels of flour, 500 barrels of whisky, 500 head of hogs, 200 head of cattle, 500 head of sheep, 10,000 barrels of potatoes, 2,000 barrels of onions, 200 barrels onion sets, 500 bushels of corn, besides some wheat, rye, barley, chickens, butter, eggs, cooperage, &c. Received, 200 barrels of salt, 30,000 bushels of coal, and $80,000 worth of dry goods, groceries, lumber, &c.

Vevay 1819: Dufour and Sheets Sell Lots

The Dufours, of course, were the pivotal family in Switzerland County. Early on, Vincent Dufour entered a partnership with John Sheets, who was extremely prominent in Madison in neighboring Jefferson County. An 1819 publication comments on the apparently high value brought by the sale of lots for an addition to the two had made to Vevay.

The Portfolio  By Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall
 

The sale of lots adjoining the town of Vevay, Indiana, laid off by Dufour and Sheets, which commenced on Monday the 2d of November, closed on the Wednesday following. There were 10s lots sold (which amounted to I3| acres) for 15,865 [an illegible fraction] dolls.—about 1220 dollars per acre!

Philadelphia:
Published By Harrison Hall, 209, Chesnut Street.
And In London,
By John Miller and John Maxwell
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