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Steamer Georgia Fire
New Orleans, LA

January 28, 1855

The steamer Georgia, from Montgomery, Alabama, containing two hundred passengers, and one thousand bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire at New Orleans on January 28, 1855. Sixty passengers perished in the flames, or by drowning.

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