At about 8:30 on the night of Saturday, March 15, 1856, approximately 100 passengers boarded the steam ferry New Jersey for the short voyage from today’s Penn’s Landing to the Jersey side, near where today’s battleship New Jersey is moored. What the passengers didn’t know is that many of them would never reach the Jersey shore.
As Capt. William S. Carson, from Camden, tried to navigate a river choked with ice floes, he headed for a canal between two islands in the middle of the river (they were…
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