Ferry was 50 years behind the times

A sketch that appeared in Harper’s Weekly in 1866 shows what may have been the first ferry to cross Berwick Bay between Morgan City and Berwick, or at least one very much like it. It shows what is essentially a flatboat being rowed by two men. The passengers are an elegantly dressed woman shading herself with a parasol as she sits in a two-wheeled cart, an unmounted man holding the reins of his...

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