
Tape number: V30
Name: Lantane Trice
Location: Walkerton, Virginia
Date of Birth: July 16, 1913
Date of Recording: 05/26/05
Recorded By: Grayson Mattingly & Melissa H. Phillips
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00/00 | F | gave date and place of birth |
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01/00 | SW, G | Importance of steamboats and what they did for the area, talks about steamboats on the Mattaponi - the Louise, Commodore Bartlett, Robert E. Lee, Elm city |
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5/05 | SW | Tells story about Louise getting stuck in railroad draw bridge |
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6/45 | SW | Wharfs located up an down the river, many farmers had their own wharfs, smaller steamers went up to Dunkerk(?) |
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8/30 | SW | Describes the Louise, side wheeler - tells how she could maneuver in small areas |
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9/45 | SW | Tells story about bull that got loose on steamboat at Saunders Wharf on Rappahannock River |
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11/30 | SW | Story about how the Louise sunk and was saved |
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13/08 | L | Describes how mail traveled overland by train, stage, cart and buggy |
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14/25 | SW | Describes wharf at Walkerton, ware house, pickle factory, canning company |
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16/06 | SW, G | Lists items that were canned at local cannery - English peas, tomatoes, sweetcorn, butter beans |
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17/00 | G | Talks about how oysters were canned |
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18/00 | G | Describes how oysters were packed |
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00/05 | ST | Story about man that traveled to Baltimore and got into barrel of oysters |
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1/49 | ST | Describes the one trip on the Louise he remembers - recalls man playing banjo and eating ice cream |
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3/33 | L | Talks about cold winters and river freezing |
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4/47 | H | Several Civil War stories about the area - hiding the ferry from the Yankees, Yankee getting shot in Walkerton |
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6/30 | L | Talks about Kilmarnock in 1937. Recalls Bank of Lancaster, people that worked there, and stores that were there and the owners |
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18/00 | L | tells us about Rapahannock Ferry |
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20/04 | L | tells us about Lancaster Fair, the horse races |
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22/00 | still shots of Louise and Commodore Bartlett |
