Port Famine was a steamboat landing and woodyard, supplying wood to the steamboats on the lower Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico, from the 1854 to the late 1870s.
Geography Port Famine was located above Robinson's Landing and below Gridiron. Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978, p.12,167 Port Famine lay along the east bank of the river below what is now the Sonora–Arizona border.Lingenfelter, Steamboats, p.10 Map: Steamboat Landings on the Colorado River in the 1850s
References
External links DavidRumsey.com: "Geological Map No. 1." Prepared by J.S. Newberry, M.D. Geologist to the Expedition. — Explorations and Surveys of U.S. War Department, "Map No. 1. Rio Colorado of the West" explored by 1st Lieut. Joseph C. Ives, Topl. Engrs. under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys. A.A. Humphreys, Capt. Topl. Engrs. in Charge, by 1858 order of the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War. — Drawn by Frhr. F.W.v. Egloffstein. Topographer to the Expedition. Topography by Frhr. F.W.v. Egloffstein. Ruling by Samuel Sartain. Lettering by F. Courtenay. 1858.