Sea Ports

If you had an ancestor who worked on a cargo ship, there are some truly amazing places he could have visited. It's even possible that this is how somebody for New York found and married a girl from Virginia. Some of the major ports around the United States were Charleston, South Carolina, New York City, San Francisco, Duluth, Minnesota, Green Bay, Wisconsin, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana. These ports made it possible to transfer goods across the United States much more efficiently than covered wagon. Many people were needed to work the docks and the boats, and it gave men the chance to work their way to a new city.