One of the unique scenes on Hassel Island was the line of women who served as coal carriers or coal porters on the coaling dock. The baskets of coal averaged 80 to 100 pounds, yet these coaling women carried them on the tops of their heads without steadying them with their hands. Here’s an interesting […]
Hassel Island
Rare Photograph of the EAGLE at the Railway ~ 1920s
Oct 21, 1930, V.I. Daily News Ever wonder what the inter-island sloops were transporting below in their holds? Some may think it contraband and many times it was, but mostly it was passengers, cases of fruit, home grown vegetables and cattle. During the early 1900s, a popular little sloop called the Eagle was making the […]