Museum of the Islands

Preserving the past for the future on Pine Island, Florida

The Steamboat “Uneeda”

The steamer “Uneeda”, one of the eight steamers owned by the Menge Brothers Steamboat Line. For 22 years, the steamers plied up the Caloosahatchee River past the landings of pioneer settlers.

Credit Fort Myers News Press via Joanne Miller

“Uneeda” on the Caloosahatchee River.

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Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/8522

“Uneeda” on the Caloosahatchee River.

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Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/149047

An excursion to Sanibel Island on the “Uneeda”.

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Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/149048  Photographer, Hunt.

“Uneeda”, drawn by Philip Ayers Sawyer.

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Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/155275

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