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[Mill Street Wharf with ship docked for Historic Bristol Day]
A tall ship was brought to the wharf from Philadelphia. Visitors could go aboard the ship. It was during one of the Historic Bristol Days that are held in October each year. -
[Mill Street parking lot, showing two boats traveling up the Delaware River]
Burlington Island is across the river. -
[Mill Street parking lot showing boat going up the Delaware River]
Burlington Island is across the river. -
[Ice on the Delaware River at the Mill Street Wharf]
The large poles on each side of the wharf were tying steamboats that travelled from Trenton to Philadelphia with stops at Bordentown, NJ, Bristol, PA, and Burlington, NJ. On the left, is the ferry boat dock which connected Burlington, NJ and Bristol, PA until 1931 when the Burlington Bristol Bridge was opened. The boat at the dock is the William E. Doron ferry. -
[Horace Tranter of Bristol’s Tricentennial Committee welcomes Captain Armin Elsaesser of the visiting sailing ship “Pride of Baltimore I” at the Bristol Wharf]
The ship and captain were lost in a storm near Puerto Rico in 1986.
Stamped on back: "Sircely Jun 19 1980." -
[Electric cranes on the twelve shipways of the Harriman Shipyard during WWI]
Buildings on the left are support buildings at the shipyard. The smokestacks at left are for the powerhouse. -
[Cargo ship passing along the Delaware River, view from the back grounds of the Grundy Library]
This image was taken behind the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library on Radcliffe Street in Bristol, PA. When Fairless Steel Company opened near Morrisville in the 1950s, large ships brought products for the steel industry and tug boats were needed to help with the docking of the ships. They dredged the river channel to 45 feet in depth. -
[Bristol Wharf during one of the annual Historic Bristol Days in October]
A tall ship was brought there for people to go onboard and tour it. -
[Anchor Yacht Club, 1232 ½ Pine Grove Street]
Founded in 1906. Ducks use club’s ramp for access to the river. -
[“Canal Outlet Lock” at Delaware River, Bristol, PA (later turned into Mill Street parking lot)]
Beyond this lock, there were 24 locks north to Easton, PA, a total of approximately 168 feet elevation difference. The “William Doron” ferry boat, which connected Bristol and Burlington City, NJ, is pictured in the river. -
["Pride of Baltimore I" docks at Bristol Wharf]
The ship visited as part of Bristol’s kick-off to the Tricentennial Celebration. The ship and captain were lost in a storm near Puerto Rico in 1986.
Stamped on back: "Sircely, Jun 19 1980." -
“3380--Scene at a launching Merchants Ship Building Corp., Harriman, PA."
Hull #3 Watonwan in dry dock ready to be christened. -
"Merchants Ship Building Corporation Shipyards, Harriman, PA., showing the twelve ship ways"
80 acres was needed for the construction of merchant ships during World War I, an adjacent community called Harriman surrounded the shipyard. The site became home to aircraft factories after World War I. -
"Burlington, New Jersey"
River travel was the least expensive and usually the smoothest. The cost of a ticket from Bristol to Philadelphia was about $0.20. In this circa 1910 image, is the Bristol (originally named the Soo), one of the popular steamboats. In 1818, another small steamboat also named Bristol ran for three season between Philadelphia and the town of Bristol, but it was destroyed by fire. Other contemporary steamboats were the Thomas Morgan, Twilight, and Columbia. -
"Boats arriving at Island Beach, N.J. (Burlington Island)"
Island Beach Park on Burlington Island, opposite Bristol, was used until a fire destroyed much of the park in 1928. Another fire in 1934 finished the operation of the Park.