The Anchor Line Route
The Anchor Line served most cities between St. Louis and New Orleans, as well as many smaller landings on occasion or by special request of passengers. Main landings probably included Cairo, Illinois; New Madrid, Missouri; Hickman, Kentucky; Memphis; Helena, Arkansas; Greenville, Mississippi; Vicksburg; Natchez, Mississippi (and Vidalia, Louisiana, across the river); Bayou Sara, Louisiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Donaldsonville, Louisiana; and New Orleans. Not all Anchor Line steamboats traveled this entire route regularly; for example, between 1888 and 1896, the Arkansas City worked a route between St. Louis and Natchez.
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