Word: keelboats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...niece, the beauteous and witty Margaret Agnew whose father was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Ostracized by both families, the honeymooning couple crossed the Atlantic to New York. Hunting for a home in the wilderness, they reached Pittsburgh by post, floated down the Ohio River on a keelboat. Some 14 miles below Marietta and hard by the mouth of the Little Kanawha, the wandering Blennerhassetts came upon a narrow island three miles long. There, in 1798, Harman Blennerhassett began building a mansion...