| By mid-century the rivers were thick with flatboats and keelboats. |
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| In the fertile lands on the two sides of Old River, plantations were deeply submerged, and livestock survived in flatboats. |
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| Steamboat passengers were appalled at the wan, shivering families along the river, occasionally seen living on flatboats as they waited for flood waters to recede. |
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| The Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, once a favorite of my children, is dedicated to the back end of plantation life, with reconstructed slave cabins, antiquated farm equipment, flatboats and plantation bells. |
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| Originally, the Tennessee could be navigated only by flatboats. |
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| After the War of 1812, the Wabash basin was rapidly developed by settlers, and the river continued as an important artery of trade, for both flatboats and river steamers. |
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| In the late 18th century, boatmen who floated down the Mississippi River with flatboats of goods would sell both the goods and the boats and use the trace as an overland route back to the Ohio River valley. |
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