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Arabia Steamboat Museum. / 39.109778; -94.581485. The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991, in the Kansas City River Market. [1]
The paddlewheel of Arabia is located at the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City. The Arabia was built in 1853 around the Monongahela River in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Its paddle wheels were 28 feet (8.5 m) across, and its steam boilers consumed approximately thirty cords of wood per day. It averaged 5 miles (8.0 km) per hour going upstream.
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More than 40 full-time independently owned shops and restaurants are open year-round. The farmers' market features local vendors every weekend. The Arabia Steamboat Museum at 400 Grand Blvd. is a tourist attraction displaying thousands of artifacts from a steamboat and its cargo that had sunk nearby in 1856 and was recovered in 1987–88.
Arabia Steamboat Museum, 400 Grand Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The ship Arabia sank in the Missouri River on September 5, 1856, and was rediscovered in 1988. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Date: 31 October 2011, 17:33:51: Source: Own work: Author: Daderot: Permission (Reusing this file)
What was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime turned tragic this week when Saida Wurie learned her parents were among the hundreds of pilgrims who have died amid extreme temperatures in Saudi Arabia.
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont ). In 1807, that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers from New York City to Albany and back ...