by Jackie Nunnery
LANCASTER—An eagle which once sat atop the pilot house of the Steamboat Lancaster will be moving to the Steamboat Era Museum following a unanimous vote by supervisors on Thursday, July 30.
Museum executive director Owen Lanier said the Lancaster was built in 1892 and traveled up and down the Rappahannock River until 1905 when she was sold to the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railroad Company. The eagle was given to Judge Thomas Roane Wright, but “I don’t know how he got it,” said Lanier.
The Lancaster was scrapped in 1928, “so that means today the only really tangible relic of….
