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in the Herald, notifying stock subscribers that payment installments of $25 and $50 were due. It was estimated that the vessel, to be named Cleveland, would cost $90,000 when completed. She was finally launched on June 24, 1837 and arrived at Cleveland on July l to receive her engines, in tow of the steamer New York. The engines were built by the West Point Foundry in New York at a cost of $45,000 with an additional $5,000 expended for shafts and other accessories. The cost of the hull was about $22,500.90 In 1838, Walker and Burton Goodsell built the steamer Great Western. Her launching was held up for one week because of "rough weather," but she finally slid down the ways on July 28, 1838. Because of the warm weather, Walker was able to run from Huron to Cleveland and back during the first week of January 1839 with the steamer Columbus to pick up the Great Western's engines. They were low pressure engines built at Pittsburgh. Said the Herald: The Great Western is arranged unlike any other boat. The entire hull is occupied by the boilers and by holds for freight and wood. On the main deck, aft, is the ladies' cabin and state rooms; above this, on what would be the hurricane deck, the main cabins are placed, running almost the whole length of the boat. The ladies' saloon aft, the dining cabin, next, and the saloon or bar room forward. State rooms are arranged on either side of these cabins the whole length.91 Unfortunately, shortly after coming out, the Great Western caught fire at the dock in Detroit on September l, 1839, and when the fire finally was extinguished, only the hull and engines remained. The intrepid Walker rebuilt her over the winter at a cost of some $25,000 and she resumed service in 1840. Augustus Walker moved back to Buffalo, where he died on February 6, 1865. This ended the era of steam shipbuilding at Huron. Fairbanks Church launched a small steamer on June 13, 1839 which was described as "the greatest little boat ever built on these or any other waters."92 She was named the General Scott. This was the last steamer built by Church. In 1841 he built the schooner Woodbridge, and in 1842 the schooner Rebecca and the brig Henry Clay. Then, in 1843, at the age of fifty-two, Church died. His tombstone, at the small Main Street Cemetery in Huron, is fitting. A sidewheeler is carved on the top of the stone, and under his name is inscribed, "Master Shipbuilder." Huron saw many sailing vessels built in the following year. Eveline and Henry Bates built several, as did Frederick D. Ketchum. Among these were the schooners Blue Bell (1844), Westchester (1846), 56