
March 12, 1844 – The Steamboat Agatha arrives at Iowa City.
“During the first forty years of Iowa history, every seventh year was a very wet one when all our creeks and rivers were bank full during the whole season, and with 1844 being the second in this septennial period, it may be counted as a steamboat year.” Historian H.W. Lathrop
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