Steam back in time to when Pittsburgh was the Gateway to the West with the History Center’s exhibition, Pittsburgh’s Lost Steamboat: Treasures of the Arabia, now through Jan. 4! For more information: www.heinzhistorycenter.org/exh...
Can you imagine what a rush it must have been to discover and excavate this beauty!! I’m an amateur treasure hunter and I’m over the moon when I find an old bottle...This would probably give me a heart attack!
Amazing how all these artifacts were preserved, and really cool that this boat was found. I just don’t understand why nobody cared or had enough compassion, to save that poor mule. Just goes to show how unimportant he was to his owner or anyone else. People don’t deserve animals! Breaks my heart, and boils my blood. At least he’s with the Angels in Heaven!
I enjoyed my visit to the Heinz History Center and Treasures of the Arabia exhibit last September. As a historian of John Brown, it was exciting and gratifying to see him pictured and the story of David Hoyt and the Sharps rifles. I hope someone will write a specific historical article about this incident that the Heinz History Center portrays very well.
The mule! 😭 I can’t believe I’ve never heard about this! They never did a special on Discovery when I was a kid. My 8 year old just learned about it in school, and told me about it. Now I’m obsessed. This presenter is really awesome too!
lived in KC since '93, lived 5 blocks from the KC museum for nine years, and still have not been. I did peak thru the windows this eve. on my nightly walk. they remade the wheel and are resealing the water pool it paddles in. so didn't get to see it moving :(
Back in the mid 60's there was the hulk of a small steamboat in Greenville, PA. Legend had it that it used to run to Pittsburgh & back. Does anyone have any knowledge about this?
So if there were 500 of those steam ships that went down like the Arabia, are there more buried ships out there in need of being found? Are there now people out searching for them?
Great video. But sad you could not give credit or thanks to the Hawley family for their support of your museum. No doubt you purchased or were given the artifacts that you have that allowed you to create your museum.
Those Sharps carbines weren't going to John brown..I have no idea where you come up with that...I guess it's about as factual as the bayonets that go on rifles that you have hung on those carbines...they don't go on there..the Sharps carbine does not have a bayonet lug...those bayonets fit on a musket with a locking lug...you don't even know what you have or how it functions...you've created a fantasy weapon that never existed..your just making things up like a history revisionist...your going to ruin the Sharps..take those bayonets off of them they don't go with the carbine.....