The town of Washington is nowhere near the Mississippi River. But it claims to have been the busiest steamboat port between ... between Washington, Louisiana and the colonial Williamsburg ...

Washington, Louisiana, was one of the South’s busiest ... to turn back toward the direction they came. After the last steamboat left in 1900, other settlements in the area overtook Washington ...

So did Mount Vernon. In 1904, the Ladies’ Association that ran George Washington’s plantation home decreed that only the Charles Macalester, a steamboat that catered exclusively to white ...