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There were also "Wharf Boats", and they could be very simple or very elaborate:


This is a wharf boat which was at Cairo Illinois in 1864, looking from the bank. The funnels and pilot house of a steamboat can be seen behind the wharf boat. These would be used when the banks were unsuitable for boats to draw up close to load and unload, or when changes in the river level made permanent docks impossible, which would be most of the nation's rivers in 1864.
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