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Wayne City Landing
Coordinates: 39.134919, -94.424662 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Wayne City Landing
The Wayne City Landing is on the right (south) bank of the Missouri River, near Sugar Creek. The landing, which is owned by Lafarge Cement Corporation (formally the Missouri Portland Cement Company), is near Cement City Road (which is north of the corner East Kentucky Road and North River Boulevard), about 3.25 miles north of Independence. The overlook, on the bluff overlooking the river, is on North River Boulevard, north of East Kentucky Road and just south of the Wayne City Road intersection. The landing is .25 to .5 mile due north of the overlook.

During the early Santa Fe Trail days, Wayne City Landing served as a port to receive supplies for early pioneers. Wayne City, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, received travelers who were headed west along the Oregon, California and Santa Fe trails, and some of the merchandise unloaded here was carried to Santa Fe. But this steamboat landing, and an earlier ferry operation, was never as successful or used as long as the Lower Independence Landing, which was located two miles downriver. One reason for this may have been the great flood of July 1844, which placed a sandbar in front of the landing and encouraged settlers to go farther west to Westport Landing (now in downtown Kansas City, Missouri). Perhaps as a result of the flood, the first railroad west of the Mississippi River was constructed in 1850 to join Wayne City and nearby Independence.

No trace of the landing remains. Outdoor exhibits are at the overlook. From Places to Go in Missouri webpage

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