Kansas City, Missouri -
Arabia Steamboat Museum
A merchant goods-loaded vessel sank on the Missouri River in 1856. The booty was later dug up from a farmer's field and is now cataloged and displayed for public perusal.
- Address:
- 400 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO
- Directions:
- Grand Blvd and E. 4th St., in the city market area.
- Hours:
- M-Sa 10 am - 5:30 pm; Su noon-5 pm. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 816-471-4030
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Tour included one of the five appearing in person and answering questions. [Masten Williams, 06/29/2011]
Arabia Steamboat Museum The wide variety of goods recovered from the site of the Arabia's wreckage is a wonderful education on mid-19th-Century live in Frontier America. [Kyr-Roger St. Denis, 05/22/2011]
Arabia Steamboat Museum Boat carrying products for sale to small general stores sunk in the Missouri River on an oxbow. The oxbow dried up about 2 miles from the main channel, where the boat was found in a farmer's field. The ships contents were recovered in good shape and it is a museum to the times -- 1856. [Stan Spector, 02/01/2010]
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