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Enterprise (1814)
The steamboat ''Enterprise'' demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2,200-mile voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville, Pennsylvania that steamboat commerce was practical on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.〔''Western Courier'' (Ky. ), 1 June 1815: "Arrived in this port, in 25 days from New-Orleans, the Steam-Boat ''Enterprize'', capt. SHRIEVE. The celerity and safety with which this boat descends and ascends the currents of these mighty waters, the improvement of the navigation of which is so advantageous to the western world, must be equally interesting to the farmer and the merchant. The facility and convenience of the passage, in ascending the rivers, are such as to give a decided preference to this mode of navigation, while the size and construction of the boat entitles it to all the advantages which the ''Ætna and Vesuvius'' have in vain attempted to ''monopolize'' over the ''free'' waters of our common country."〕〔''American Telegraph'' (Pa. ), 5 July 1815: "Arrived at this port on Monday last, the Steam Boat Enterprize, Shreve, of Bridgeport, from New Orleans, in ballast, having discharged her cargo at Pittsburgh. She is the first steam boat that ever made the voyage to the Mouth of the Mississippi and back. She made the voyage from New Orleans to this port, in fifty four days, twenty days on which were employed in loading and unloading freight at different towns on the Mississippi and Ohio, so that she was only thirty four days in active service, in making her voyage, which our readers will remember must be performed against powerful currents, and is upwards of ''two thousand two hundred miles in length.''"〕〔Hunter (1993), p. 18: "The members of a committee of Congress reporting early in 1816 must have had the achievements of the ''Enterprise'' particularly in mind when they declared that the success of steamboat navigation on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers was no longer in doubt."〕
==Early days==
The ''Enterprise'', or ''Enterprize'', with an engine and power train designed and built by Daniel French, was launched before June 1814 at Brownsville for her owners: the shareholders of the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company.〔''Pittsburgh Gazette'', 10 June 1814: "Arrived here on Wednesday morning last from Brownsville, the Steam Boat ENTERPRIZE, Capt. Gregg. Her destination the Falls of Ohio."〕〔''American Telegraph'' (Pa. ), 5 July 1815: "Last Saturday evening the Steam was first tried on the Despatch, another steam boat, lately built in Bridgeport, and owned as well as the Enterprize, by the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company. We are happy to learn that she is likely to answer the most sanguine expectations of the ingenious Mr. French, the engineer, on whose plan she is constructed."〕 The ''Enterprise'', under the command of Israel Gregg, was first used to transport passengers and cargo to ports between Brownsville and Louisville, Kentucky.〔''Pittsburgh Gazette'', 10 June 1814: "THE ELEGANT STEAM BOAT, ENTERPRIZE, Captain ISRAEL GREGG, arrived here on Wednesday last, from Bridgeport, on the Monongahela, a distance of upwards of 65 miles, in 5 hours and 38 minutes. She is handsomely fitted up for passengers, and will take freight and passengers for Louisville, Falls of Ohio, for which place she will sail on Saturday or Sunday morning next. For particulars apply to the Capt. on board at ''Market Street Wharf''. ''Pittsburgh, June 9th.''"〕〔''Western Courier'' (Ky. ), 27 June 1814: "Arrived here on Tuesday last from Pittsburgh, the Steam Boat Enterprise, Capt. Gregg."〕 From June to December she completed two 600-mile voyages from Louisville to Pittsburgh that were performed against strong river currents.〔 With these voyages the ''Enterprise'' demonstrated for the first time that steamboat commerce was practical on the Ohio River.
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