Emily B.

The "Emily B." was a three-masted, thirty ton schooner that regularly traveled along the Florida coast from Jacksonville to Key West, stopping at Miami, Lemon City, Jupiter, etc. It was also labeled a sharpie. Many of the Expedition party departed Miami on the "Emily B." returning to Port Tampa via Key West. The schooner was owned by Uri Dunning Hendrickson and operated by the Lake Worth and Jacksonville Transportation Company. Many early settlers in the Miami region, including Julia Tuttle, first arrived on the "Emily B." The schooner was later sunk in a storm near Key West in 1894.

Sources:

• "Uri Dunning Hendrickson," Lake Worth Pioneers' Association, Inc.
• Charles W. Pierce, Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida, 1970 (includes a photo of Hendrickson on the schooner)
• Lemon City: Pioneering on Biscayne Bay 1850-1925, Thelma Peters, 1976
• "Homesteading in Florida During the 1890s," by Mary Douthit Conrad, Tequesta, Vol. 17, 1957

References in the Texts:

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• April 8, Friday
• April 9, Saturday

For other topics referenced in the Expedition texts, please refer to the Index to Subjects and Names.
1892 Everglades Exploration Expedition : Three Digital Texts, 2015