The Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company (MOSBC) was the second to build and operate steamboats on America's rivers west of the Allegheny Mountains. Created as a stock company and based at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, the shareholders of the MOSBC contracted Daniel French to build two steamboats: Enterprise and Despatch. Both steamboats contributed greatly to the expansion of steamboat commerce throughout the country's western rivers.
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