“Where are you?” Chris asked. Michelle answered, “We’re on the Jonathan Padelford.” “How romantic,” he said sarcastically. “You’re floating down the Mississippi having cocktails while we’re running for our lives?” By 1853, 235 riverboats moored at the Lower and Upper Landings in Saint Paul. Since 2003, several tourist steamboats are docked across the river on Harriet Island. The most famous is the Jonathan Padelford, a 125-foot, 300-capacity sidewheeler.
