TECUMSEH (towboat)
- Also Known As: Cotton Blossom
- Vicinity: Whereabouts unknown
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1928/00/00 | Charles Ward Engineering Works | Architect | The towboat TECUMSEH is built by the Charles Ward Engineering Works of Charleston, West Virginia for the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps will use it to push barges, pontoons and derricks on the Ohio, Kanawha and Scioto rivers. | |||
| 1973/00/00 | The New Orleans Steamboat Co buys the towboat TECUMSEH for use as a harbor excursion vessel. Renamed the COTTON BLOSSOM, they sail from the Toulouse Street wharf in New Orleans. | |||||
| 2009/10/30 | As of 2009, the MV COTTON BLOSSOM, owned by Capt Frank Crane, is in storage at Capt Frank Crane's private slough on the Tchefuncte River, north of New Orleans. |
| Particulars for TECUMSEH (towboat): | |
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| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Level of Significance | National |
| Sight Category | Structure |
| Area of Significance | Transportation |
| Historic Use | Water-related |
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