nagel
Contributor
I was just throwing it out that the paddle boat on the Mississippi is the General....not really believing. I believe the General was a mooring boat for the Zeb. You can see it in one of the pictures. It's odd that nobody can say for sure how she ended up at the bottom of the lake. A few years ago somebody posted a newspaper article about it where an "old timer" was telling the story. In this, he said it broke lose in a storm and sunk where it rests currently. I tend to believe that and wish I still had a copy of that article, but my computer crashed and lost it awhile back. Another odd thing is why is it called the Zebulon Pike? We have debunked that after finding the Zeb at one of the marinas a few years back. I had heard stories about it and got a call from another forum member to come down because he had something I needed to see. He was camping and looking across the water a saw the Zeb in the Cricket Creek Marina. He couldn't believe it and called me and I was down the next day and took pictures that since have been published on this board. But again, why call the wreck under the water the Zeb. Maybe because it was associated with the Zeb.
Snagel
Snagel