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March 28, 1870: State officials boarded the Mountain Boy to move capital from Wheeling to Charleston

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The steamboat Mountain Boy was one of six steamboats that moved West Virginia’s capital between 1870 and 1885. The boat was built on the Monongahela River at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1868 on a hull 135 feet long, 26 feet wide, and four feet deep. It was built for J. W. Oakes, president of the Kanawha and Gallipolis Packet Co. The Mountain Boy was running regularly on the

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