[DOC] [TLE] New Orleans (steamboat) - Wikipedia [PAR] The New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United 
States. Owned by Robert Fulton and Robert R. Livingston, and built by Nicholas 
Roosevelt, its 18111812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to New Orleans, 
Louisiana on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers .... Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and 
put it into service at New Orleans, named it... [DOC] [TLE] Steamboats of the Mississippi River - Wikipedia [PAR] Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the 
Mississippi River and ... The Ohio River and Tennessee River are other 
tributaries on its east, and the ... In 1811 the steamer New Orleans was built in 
Pittsburgh for Fulton and ... The New Orleans, or Orleans, was the first Mississippi 
steamboat. [DOC] [TLE] First Steamboat to Descend the Ohio River in 1811 - Cincinnati ... [PAR] Through the Revolutionary War, these colonies had become by 1785 a sovereign 
... Built first steamboat to navigate on western rivers (October 1811) Concern: ... 
Made the first trip from Pittsburg to New Orleans with him, delivering a son, .... the 
construction of the boat, named NEW ORLEANS, opening the river system to a. [DOC] [TLE] Steamboats and the Ohio River - KET [PAR] The Ohio River is formed by the confluence of the. Allegheny and ... named by 
the Egyptian immigrants who settled the area (now ... was the first river steamboat 
to carry payloads and ... was the New Orleans, a sidewheeler built at. Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, in 1811 by Nicholas ... more safe drop after going over the top. [DOC] [TLE] A Brief History of Pittsburgh - Popular Pittsburgh [PAR] Feb 11, 2015 ... These men built Fort George for the crown. ... debarkation point for those heading 
westward. In 1811, Robert Fulton launched the first steamboat, New Orleans. 
Built in Pittsburgh, it navigated the waters between New Orleans and ... During 
the late 1800s and early 1900s, the area's rivers continued to attract... [DOC] [TLE] PITTSBURGH AS VIEWED FROM DOWN RIVER Some Nineteenth ... [PAR] Even after the New Orleans, the first steamboat built on western waters, was 
constructed in Pittsburgh in 1811 [by Nicholas J. Roosevelt] ... channels, 
landmarks, shallows, other hazards, described these inthe .... building competitor 
towns on the Ohio River [Cincinnati, New ..... books ....playing cards and patent 
medicines. [DOC] [TLE] Steamboats on the Ohio River - Cincinnativiews [PAR] In October of 1811 the first Steamboat started down the Ohio River from 
Pittsburgh. Called the New Orleans it was captained by Nicholas J. Roosevelt the
... [DOC] [TLE] The Ohio River, Its Influence on the Development of Indiana | Burns ... [PAR] Mr. Elliott left Pittsburgh in the fall of 1796 with two keel boats and two flat 
bottomed or ... He described the trade then carried on by river to New Orleans 
and noted the ... as "New Orleans Boats" were built for the longer journey down 
the Mississippi. .... This, the first steamboat on the western rivers, was launched in 
1811. [DOC] [TLE] The Heroic Theory of Invention [PAR] In their design and equipment these vessels broke radically with the type of ... 
vein: "The task of constructing a great inland river marine to play the dual role of 
serving ... At least three steamboats had made the trip up the rivers from New 
Orleans ..... In 1811-1812, while the first Fulton steamboat was being built at 
Pittsburgh,... [DOC] [TLE] Industrial Development of the City of Pittsburgh - Institute for ... [PAR] Alarmed at French incursions in the Ohio River valley, ... named after British 
Secretary of State William Pitt the Elder. He also ... About a third of these settlers 
were English, a third of them were Scotch-Irish and the rest ... steamboat, the 
New Orleans was constructed in Pittsburgh. ... In 1795, the first glass factory was 
built. [DOC] [TLE] Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt and the First Mississippi River Steamboat ... [PAR] The Roosevelt Route to New Orleans- Wikimedia Commons ... She made these 
voyages at a time when the role of woman in her society ... the Ohio River at

Question: In 1811 the first of these to ply the Ohio River was built in Pittsburgh--the New Orleans, named for where it was headed
Answer: a steamboat