Top: The New Camelia, one of the excursion steamers, which also carried the mail, that left New Orleans (presumably from the end of Elysian Fields Avenue) each evening and steamed off to the ports on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, returning to New Orleans the following morning. Left: The New Camelia docked in Covington. My great-grandfather, Robert T. Patterson, was chief engineer on the New Camelia following his Civil War service. He died of a heart attack in his stateroom aboard the ship while it was docked in the Tchefuncte River in Madisonville in 1888. He was 59 years old at the time. Right: The New Camelia under way on Lake Pontchartrain.
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 17:06:47 +0000
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