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274:(built 1895 104 ft or 31.7 m, 186 GT), also ran up to Vaughn, where the shallow draft of the sternwheeler made loading and unloading easier, as the vessel could come close in to the shore.
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315:(54 ft or 16.5 m) after his daughter, begin making runs three times weekly from Case Inlet to Olympia, with stops at Allyn, Vaughn, and Hartstine and
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16:Steamboats serving Washington, United States
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406:Steamship routes in Washington (state)
383:Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound
354:Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound
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221:Vessels on the route included
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352:Findlay and Patterson,
196:There was a landing on
297:Termination of service
66:Case Inlet steamboats
20:Case Inlet Steamboats
217:Vessels on the route
243:, the sternwheeler
149:Grapeview (Detroit)
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104:Communities served
309:Allyn, Washington
157:Pickering Passage
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202:Prohibition
74:Puget Sound
30:Puget Sound
376:References
177:Vaughn Bay
159:separates
138:Taylor Bay
70:Case Inlet
42:Case Inlet
319:islands.
259:White Cap
185:E.M. Gill
167:and also
80:Geography
400:Category
301:In 1924
223:E.M.Gill
114:Rock Bay
96:and the
37:Waterway
317:Squaxin
271:Tyconda
255:Seaside
236:Capitol
190:Detroit
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291:Lavina
280:Lavina
261:, and
165:Ballow
151:, and
136:, and
126:Herron
118:Vaughn
110:Victor
28:south
25:Locale
323:Notes
313:Loren
304:Ariel
286:Leota
263:Colby
251:Arrow
241:Clara
231:Orion
145:Allyn
51:1870s
387:ISBN
128:and
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