This picture, taken the Winter of 2000 - 2001 marks the 150th anniversary of the landing of Steamboat Washington on the Little River in Cameron. Looking upstream, you can almost see the Washington coming around the bend.

In the Winter of 1850-1851
with Captain Basil M.
Hatfield, Commander, the

STEAMBOAT WASHINGTON
LANDED HERE

with a shipment of merchandise
from Washington-on-the-Brazos
to J. W. McCown and Co., Mer-
chants at Cameron. The first,
last and only steamboat to
navigate Little River.