Team boat

Horse ferry in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1900. Two horses for power, with Capt. Horace McElfresh and son.

A team boat, horse boat, or horse ferry, is a watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill, which serves as a horse engine.[1][2] Team boats were popular as ferries in the United States from the mid-1810s to the 1850s.

  1. ^ Boyer, Charles Shimer (1921). Old ferries, Camden, New Jersey; an address delivered before the Camden County Historical Society. Annals of Camden. Vol. 3. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
  2. ^ "Old Timers Sloops of the Hudson 1964". Retrieved 2014-04-17.