The Luraville Locomotive, one of the nation's oldest steam locomotives, was most likely built between 1850 and 1855 and was an oft-modified 10-ton, wood-burning American 4-4-0 engine that played a role in Florida's early logging history. It may once have had a cowcatcher and perhaps pulled passenger cars, but by about 1890 it had become a tram engine hauling logs for the Bache Brothers Lumber Company to its sawmill near Luraville in Suwannee County. Its working career ended around 1900 when it sank to the bottom of the Suwannee River while being loaded onto a barge at or near the Live Oak & Gulf Railroad's Suwannee River terminus in Peek. In 1979, a team headed by Luraville resident James Lancaster hoisted the locomotive's remains and two sets of iron wheels from the river bottom, and it was later purchased and presented to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for safekeeping and preservation.