Near here on the north bank of the Ohio River at mile 510.5 stood a riverboat landing, ferry, and road to the courthouse at Burlington. The landing and the large brick home later called Winnfield Cottage were built about 1814 by Robert Piatt, the grandfather of Brevet Major General Edward R. S. Canby, who was born nearby. In a cabin at East Bend, Brevet Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby was born on November 9, 1817. A West Point graduate of 1839, he accepted the final surrender of the Confederacy from Generals Richard Taylor and Kirby Smith in Alabama and Louisiana in May 1865. He was killed in California at a peace conference with Modoc Indians on April 11, 1873.