The “Ivanhoe” was a steamship built in Charleston in 1839 which regularly traveled along the east coast, around the tip of Florida to New Orleans and up the Mississippi all the way to Pittsburg[1] transporting people and goods. Augusta Georgia resides on the border of South Carolina about forty miles north-west of the city of Barnwell. The Barnwell District which is bounded on the north by the Edistro River and on the south by the Savannah River which is also the border with Georgia. Steamboats such as the Ivanhoe would travel on the Savannah River from the port of Savannah on the Atlantic to Augusta. A train ran from Augusta to Charleston passing through Barnwell.

[1] My father, Morris Mixson, would make the journey the opposite way, from Pittsburg to New Orleans, when he joined the Navy during World War II in 1945. (see Morris in the War)