Constructed At Philadelphia in 1859
Valley City -- a wooden-hulled screw-steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1859—was purchased by the Union Navy at New York City on 26 July 1861; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 13 September 1861, Lt. James C. Chaplin in command.
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