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About two miles from this point, the remains of Callville lie buried in silt on the bottom of Lake Mead. Originally developed as a port on the Colorado River to supply goods to Mormon settlements, Callville had long been a desolate ruin by the time Lake Mead's rising water swallowed it. In December 1864, Anson Call traveled overland past this point to the north bank of the Colorado, where he selected a town site along a horseshoe bend of the river. He built a landing and a large warehouse for cargo that was to come up the Colorado by steamboat. Callville never really got going, as isolation, competition, difficult upstream navigation, and a transcontinental railroad hindered the town's progress. A steamboat finally landed at Callville in 1866, but two years later the town was abandoned.
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