page_title: La Center (sternwheeler)
hierarchical_section_title: La Center (sternwheeler)
caption_attribution_description: English: Steamer La Center at Timmens Landing, La Center, Washington], Clark County Historical Museum Photographs Collection, object ID P15.18.8.1.
context_page_description: La Center was a small stern-wheel steamboat that operated from 1912 to 1931, mostly on the Lewis and Lake rivers in southwest Washington, on a route to and from Portland, Oregon along the lower Columbia and lower Willamette rivers.
  La Center was small compared to other sternwheelers of the Columbia River. However, despite a number of accidents, including collisions and groundings, La Center earned a reputation as providing dependable transport for the Lewis River country to the Portland market.
  La Center was somewhat unusual in that it was originally fitted with a gasoline engine, and then about a year after construction, the gasoline engine was replaced with second-hand steam engines.
context_section_description: La Center was a small stern-wheel steamboat that operated from 1912 to 1931, mostly on the Lewis and Lake rivers in southwest Washington, on a route to and from Portland, Oregon along the lower Columbia and lower Willamette rivers.
  La Center was small compared to other sternwheelers of the Columbia River.  However, despite a number of accidents, including collisions and groundings, La Center earned a reputation as providing dependable transport for the Lewis River country to the Portland market.
  La Center was somewhat unusual in that it was originally fitted with a gasoline engine, and then about a year after construction, the gasoline engine was replaced with second-hand steam engines.
caption: La Center at Timmens Landing, (La Center, Washington, moored by freight warehouse, circa 1920.
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