Tuckahoe River Trip - Captain C.C. Wheeler Pilgrimage

Wheeler Transportation Line was a thriving enterprise when Captain C.C. Wheeler died prematurely of cancer in 1899.   He was 59 years old.

Wheeler died without a will. By order of the court, Minnie Wheeler, Chesapeake, and Easton were sold to the rival B.C.& A. Railway Company in 1901, along with the lease rights for the various Wheeler Line wharves.

B.C.& A. soon sold Easton to a Michigan company.  She was sold to foreign interests in 1917. B.C.& A. continued to operate Chesapeake on the Tuckahoe until 1916.  Minnie Wheeler was used only for freight and as a relief boat. Both were sold in 1916 to Bethlehem Steel Company in Baltimore for use as workers' quarters.  Both vessels were scrapped soon after WWI.