Steamers Ticonderoga and Vermont, Burlington, VT Magnet

Steamers Ticonderoga and Vermont, Burlington, VT vintage postcard enhanced and restored by Scenes from the Past. The steamboat Ticonderoga is America’s last remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America’s lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Commissioned by the Champlain Transportation Company, the Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at the Shelburne Shipyard in Shelburne, Vermont on Lake Champlain.