It was down the river where the Mormon leader and prophet, Joseph Smith, was murdered in jail. I was only able to break away for a part of their presentation, but what I did hear I was very impressed with. These were some of the comments from our river elders. I can remember the streets were packed solid with people when a large show boat would come to town. It came twice a year.
People use to gather shells from the river to make buttons.
My experiences on the river was ice. We use to cut ice out of the river. We put ice in cars and then would fill the ice house with ice before we had refrigerators. Had a size so square. Had a big saw to cut wood.