Growing Beyond Their Dreams

The first to open a shop for the manufacture and repair of wagons and carriages was I. M. Silverthorn. He came to Steamboat shortly after the town was laid out and set up a very small business.

While wagon shops were very good businesses to be in at this time, they were never very big in Steamboat Rock.

Silverthorn later bought and operated one of Steamboat Rock’s hotels for a short time. In the 1870’s he sold out and left the area. Biographical information on I.M. Silverthorn could not be found, and it is not clear why, Mr. Silverthorn left the community.

Several others engaged in the wagon business after he left but also in a small way.