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The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports retired bookkeeper Patricia De Nardo Schmidt and fellow history buff Jeannie Creamer-Dalton, a retired secretary, are getting the paperwork together for the nonprofit in hopes of building on the history of the sternwheel riverboat that was built in 1933 and has been out of service since 1957.

It is the largest sternwheel steamboat constructed west of the Mississippi River.

You will have to travel along the Contoocook River, where the River Lady, a sternwheel paddleboat Harasko built by hand, sits docked across from his home.

Harasko said fewer than 100 sternwheel paddleboats exist in the country, and most of those, like the Minne Ha Ha on New York’s Lake George, are for commercial use.

Delta Queen Houma, La. The 1926 sternwheel steamboat is slated for repairs and awaiting federal legislation that would allow it to return to use as an overnight passenger ship.