The “Rebecca Everingham” was considered the most luxurious of the steamboats on the Chattahooche River. It was build in Columbus, GA. It has more than two dozen ornate staterooms and a capacity of 120 passenters and about 1,000 cotton bales. It operated from Columbus and Apalachicola between 1880-84. It was destroyed by five at Fitzgerald’s Landing, four miles above Florence, GA, on April 3, 1884, with a reported 11 fatalities. The fire reportedly was caused by a falling particle of carbon from an electric light. The boat was mid-stream with the alarm was sounded.