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Multiple Canal boats docked by river; Text "100.9 Canal Boats Potomac River"

Ed Wesley:        So your father, after, say 1879, had someone boat for him, and then he—

Tom Little:        Oh, yes, he didn't buy the Enterprise, had it built, right next to him. That'uz in 1881. Boatyard was built in 1880. And he had the Enterprise built in 1881. And he sold it to Mr. Ed Gunn [?] , another boatman lived down here, to William A. Smoot of Alexandria, Virginia for—I think, $200.00. That'uz in 1889. He didn't get the check 'til after the '89 flood.

Ed:        Oh.