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Old steamer Eutaw doomed as workmen strip her hull
Clip from News and Courier August 18 1910 describes the Eutaw a once thriving Georgetown Charleston line steamer now abandoned in a muddy slip near Concord Street. Workmen remove machinery while waves and tides erode the hull, the ship once carried cotton and goods up the Pee Dee river and back to Georgetown. The article notes the rise of iron rail travel supplants old steamers and recalls the vessel’s fortunes and decline.
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