The steam
craft, Linda, owned by the Canal
Company
This
is the steam vessel, Linda, a small
utility boat that was used by the canal company to take employees back and
forth through the canal and to provide general service work. The young woman on
the boat is Ellen Norris Savin, the daughter of toll-collector, Henry Norris.
She would become the wife of Joe Savin and the matriarch of the prominent Savin
family of Chesapeake City. The men aboard are (left to right): John Broadway,
Bill Vaught, and Jake Hemphill. The boat is moored on the South Side, just east
of the pump house.
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