Black-and-white illustration of the steamboat Enterprise traveling on a river, with smoke billowing from its tall smokestack and a paddlewheel at the stern. Caption below reads: “Enterprise on her fast trip to Louisville, 1815.”

River Boats

Greene River Trail, History

One of the best known steamboat tugs and the only one still on a river is the W.P. Snyder, Jr., originally built in 1918 and owned by the Carnegie Steel Company. It was originally named the W.H. Clingerman and was one of the first steel hulled steamboats. In September of 1945, it was sold to the Crucible Steel Company and renamed W.P. Snyder, Jr.