Steamer Georgia Oakes, One of the Lake Coeur d'Alene-St. Joe River Boats
The Georgie Oakes a luxury steamer built by the Northern Pacific Company to carry mail, freight and passengers on the placid inland waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene. It was considered to be one of the fanciest boats on the lake. The Georgie Oakes had staterooms, a restaurant, a bar and could carry 600 passengers.
The Sunken Ore of Lake Coeur d’Alene: Every body of water holds history and buried secrets, some may be dark or tantalizingly lucrative, others just let the trash and junk tell their stories. Lake Coeur d’Alene is no exception.
When you hear of shipwrecks and sunken treasure, the mind automatically drifts to thoughts of pirates and the deep sea. But there is a rumor of a different kind of treasure sitting at the bottom of…