Scow Schooner <I>Milton</I>
date: label: Date made
content: 1962
label: Milton built
content: 1867
notes: label: Description
content: The 102-foot three-masted scow schooner <I>Milton</I> was built by Ellsworth & Davidson at Milwaukee, Wis., in 1867. It spent 20 years hauling lumber on Lake Michigan, along with hundreds of other small boats nicknamed the “mosquito fleet.” Built to carry as much cargo as possible, many of these flat-bottom boats did not sail very well.
label: Description
content: The <I>Milton</I> collided with the ship <I>W.H. Hinsdale</I> at Milwaukee in December 1867, causing about $100 in damage to each vessel. It also ran aground twice during its career.
label: Description
content: On 8 September 1885, while transporting a cargo of cedar posts and cordwood, the <I>Milton</I> sank off Two Rivers, Wis., during an autumn storm. The entire crew of five men was lost—three of them brothers.
topic: label: related event
content: The Development of the Industrial United States
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: On the Water exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.321529
label: catalog number
content: 321529
label: accession number
content: 246222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: model, rigged scow schooner
label: Other Terms
content: Maritime; Scow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 24 in x 4 in; 40.64 cm x 60.96 cm x 10.16 cm