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Canemah (sidewheeler)
''Canemah'' was one of the first steamboats to run on the Willamette River above Willamette Falls. ''Canemah'' was the first steamboat to load grain at Corvallis, the first to carry the mail on the Willamette River, and the first steamboat in Oregon to suffer a fatal boiler explosion.〔Marshall, Don, ''Oregon Shipwrecks'', at 204, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR 1984 ISBN 0-8323-0430-1〕
==Design and construction==
''Canemah'' was designed and built by Absalom F. Hedges (1817–1890), who settled at Canemah, Oregon, in 1844. Hedges saw that the volume of commerce passing down the Willamette was growing too great to be hauled by the canoes and flat boats that were being used in the late 1840s. Hedges and his partners had accumulated several thousand dollars and in late 1849 Hedges went east to arrange for the purchase of machinery for the steamboat he planned to build. In New Orleans Hedges bought two steam engines and arranged to have them shipped to Oregon around Cape Horn.〔Corning, Howard McKinley, ''Willamette Landings -- Ghost Towns of the River, at 62-63, 92, 107-108, 117, 119, 182, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon (2d ed. 1973)〕
Hedges returned to Oregon in late 1850, and he and his partners began construction of ''Canemah''. By the end of September 1851, ''Canemah'' was launched. The Willamette River had many shallow sections at that time, called "bars". ''Canemah'' was designed to pass over all but the shallowest of bars, drawing only 17 inches when fully loaded.〔〔
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