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George Tromley, Sr., House
The George Tromley, Sr., House is located in Le Claire, Iowa. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.〔 The property is part of the Houses of Mississippi River Men Thematic Resource, which covers the homes of men from LeClaire who worked on the Mississippi River as riverboat captains, pilots, builders and owners. It is also a contributing property in the Cody Road Historic District.
==George Tromley, Sr. ==
Tromley sailed the Mississippi River before the advent of the steamboat. He began his career on the river floating log rafts, which were common before the American Civil War, and he built the first raft boat on the river at Le Claire. Eventually he sailed the river as a captain. Tromley and Thomas Doughty, a local engineer, took the small steamer the ''Le Claire'' upriver where they conducted an experiment to use a steamboat to push a log raft. The ''Le Claire'' was not powerful enough to control the raft, but the experiment led to a major development in being able to transport logs from the northern forests to the mills further south.〔 Samuel Van Sant of Le Claire was able to use its results to build a boat that was large enough and had enough power to tow a log raft in 1870. George Tromley, Sr. married Katherine McCaffrey and they raised three children. The house of their eldest son, George Tromley, Jr., is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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