This place was once called
Bennett Lake.
At the mouth of the Kansas river
and along the eastern shore of Kansas many steamboats went down in
the early days. "First Canoe," as the Indians called the steamboat,
was a stern-wheel boat that sank in the mouth of the Kansas river
in 1858. The "Cumberland Valley," one of the early boats of which
little is known, went down opposite the Wyandotte levee in
1840.
The "A. B. Chambers," one of the boats that brought emigrants to
Kansas, sank at Atchison in 1856. The wreck of the "A. C. Bird,"
lies buried near Liberty Lauding, below the mouth of the Kansas
river. "Admiral No. 1" went down at Weston, Missouri, where the
"Anthony Wayne" sank in 1851, three years after.
The "Bennett," a government wrecking boat, was herself
wrecked in 1852 at the mouth of the Kansas river while making a run
to the assistance of the "Decotah" at Peru, Nebraska.
The "Boonville" was wrecked in the bend above the mouth of the
Kansas river as far back as 1837,
and the bones of the "Aggie" are somewhere in the river near the
Hannibal bridge at Kansas City. The "Arabian" and the "Delaware"
found their last resting place at the bottom of the river near
Atchison. The "Hesperian" also was nearing the same port when she
struck a snag, and went to the bottom. In 1855 the "Express" found
a watery grave near Leavenworth..
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