Born in small town Pennsylvania, Fulton had first launched his steamboat, the Clermont, in 1807, and sailed it up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany . . . a distance of roughly 140 ...

The Clermont was not the first steamboat, but it was the first to become a practicable vessel and to anchor a commercially successful company. That changed travel, commerce, recreation and ...

CLERMONT – The group Friends of Clermont is preparing to celebrate in 2007 the bicentennial of the world’s first practical steamboat and its maiden voyage on the Hudson River. The private ...

as well as the steamboat, constantly occupied his attention, for the reader, the Clermont, named for Chancellor Robert R. Livingston's country home, on the Hudson, had her trial trip on the East ...

Edwards of Clermont, who thinks the city’s name came from Robert Fulton’s steamboat, the Clermont, also known as The North River Steamboat. Edwards said the Clermont was launched in 1807 and ...

SAUGERTIES – The Town Board is expected to endorse a plan to build a replica of the Clermont steamboat in Saugerties, town Supervisor Gregory Helsmoortel said. At Wednesday night’s Town Board ...

Two hundred years ago this month, Lancaster-born entrepreneur Robert Fulton drove a steamboat up the Hudson River and transformed transportation in the United States. This weekend, Clermont State ...

“The steamboat was the first American invention of world-shaking importance,” wrote historian James Thomas Flexner in 1944. In fact, he added, it “was one of those crucial inventions that ...

Edward West tested a model of the steamboat engine on the Town Branch of Elkhorn Creek in 1793, making him the first person in the U.S. to do so.