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Steamboat 'Pioneer'
![Steamboat "St. Augustine" landing at Rockledge, Florida, c. 1880.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/493718b15fa81d07b62a8de15eda44db.jpg)
Near the east end of Main St., site of Titusville's city dock, a famous Indian River steamboat of the Lund Line burned to the waterline in 1877. Noted on later maps, the charred hulk of the vessel long remained visible to passersby. It now lies buried beneath the modern street.
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The destruction of the Steamship 'Pioneer' From the Jacksonville Daily Times-Union, April 19, 1877 Source: Excerpt from Michael Knight, Did You Know?
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![Steamboat "St. Augustine" landing at Rockledge, Florida, c. 1880.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/493718b15fa81d07b62a8de15eda44db.jpg)
![Interpretive panel at 100 Indian River Ave](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/9a4ba9615e07734775fa56c2c18eb913.jpg)
![Lund House Hotel](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/a3daa9cc1610e6633bd723b7b37ee8c7.jpg)
![Detail of 1889 cadastral map showing the location of the Steamboat Pioneer remains.](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/16b6ab7aac2af71acdb70db9a0f002ea.jpg)
!["City Of Jacksonville"](https://history.titusville.com/files/fullsize/913d764593fdf8f815b6c7d50e42eefc.jpg)