Museum of the Islands

Preserving the past for the future on Pine Island, Florida

The Steamboat “Dixie”

The steamboat “Dixie” was owned by the Kinzie Brothers Steamship Company.  It was built in 1910 at Totenville, New York.

View showing the Dixie steamer in Fort Myers, Florida.

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Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/17835

“Dixie”, drawn by Philip Ayers Sawyer in 1938.

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Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/155274  Artist Sawyer, Philip Ayers.

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