Steamer Georgia Oakes, One of the Lake Coeur d'Alene-St. Joe River Boats

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The Georgie Oakes a luxury steamer built by the Northern Pacific Company to carry mail, freight and passengers on the placid inland waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene. It was considered to be one of the fanciest boats on the lake. The Georgie Oakes had staterooms, a restaurant, a bar and could carry 600 passengers.

This file appears in: The Sunken Ore of Lake Coeur d’Alene

By Katherine Hentges
Lake Coeur d’Alene was a hotbed of steamboat activity in the late 1880s. At one time, the steamboat trade on Lake Coeur d’Alene was the greatest of any lake west of the Great Lakes. Lead and silver ore transportation made up the bulk of the…