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Steamboat travel was gaining momentum when Philip Miller saw this tract of land along the Missouri River and believed it would be an ideal wood yard. On June 23, 1836, he bought the land and began supplying wood to fuel steamboats, and the site soon became known as Miller's Landing. By 1850, steamboat traffic was at its peak, with hundreds of boats traveling between Missouri and the Dakotas. The steamboats brought settlers, merchants, and immigrants to growing communities, and Miller's Landing became a well-known stop along the route. In the 1860s, with the onset of the Civil War and the completion of the Pacific Railroad connecting St. Louis to Kansas City, steamboat traffic on the Missouri River began to decline.
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