The Levee street dock at Quindaro unloaded as many as 75 riverboats a week at the peak of its economic life in 1857-1858. The dockmaster would fire a canon each time a riverboat landed. Quindaro's Kanzas Avenue and Fifth Street city center can be seen in the lower left of this image. The angled thin blue line transiting the image from center right to upper left is the current railroad track, but then was Levee street. Above it can be seen the 1855 location of the south bank of the Missouri River in red, (the current river course is in blue at the top of the image). There lay the natural rock landing that was so appealing to Charles Robinson, Sam C. Smith and members of the Quindaro Town Company who worked with Abelard Guthrie and his his influential Wyandotte Indian wife, Quindaro Nancy Guthrie, to secure the land from the Wyandotte Tribe for the site of Quindaro. In 1857 it could be said that more business was transacted in Quindaro in one day, then in the neighboring town of Wyandotte in one week. Eventually, Wyandotte won out and became the Seat of Wyandotte County in February of 1859. Quindaro began her decline then and the town charter was officially revoked in 1862.

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