How Long to Read The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River by Frank Talbot Dale

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book deals with the earliest commercial crossings on the Delaware River between the point where tides ceased at Trenton to the beginning of the Delaware River in New York State. The earliest commercial crossings were by ferryboats and were important enough to require government agency supervision under the British government in those early days. When the Revolutionary War resulted in the United States government control of things, the British regulatory policy of ferries was continued unchanged, effectively. The author of this book, Frank T. Dale, was born and raised on the east side of the Delaware River in New Jersey, but be regularly visited grandparents on the Pennsylvania side of the river. One or two ferries were still in operation in the very early 20th Century but the Dale's favorite crossing was on the old wooden covered bridge that existed between Columbia, New Jersey and Portland, Pennsylvania, until it was swept away in the 1955 flood. But many old-timers in those days who lived along the river recalled the ferry operation in their childhood. The inexpensive ferry never operated in floods and survived for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, the increase in auto traffic required the replacement of these ferries by bridges. The author got much of his ferry history from earlier writings but also from memories of river citizens who bad crossed by ferry. The existence of a ferry in the old days and its growing business, resulted in an increase settlement at the ferry site and eventually resulted in the replacement by bridges at the same location. But ferry crossing was a safer and more attractive trip.

How long is The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River?

The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River by Frank Talbot Dale is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River aloud.

What Reading Level is The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River?

The Ferry Boat Business on Our Delaware River is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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