This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Petit, McKissick, Kingsbury, Payne Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4357 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. September 17, 1908. "VISITS OLD FREMONT FRIENDS".-- Jonas Petit an old time resident of Fremont county, but now of Ashton, Kansas, gave this office a pleasant call Friday. Mr. and Mrs.Petit had been visiting relatives and old friends in Sidney and vicinity the past week, and before leaving for their home in Kansas he came in and had his subscription to the SUN moved up a notch. During the course of our conversation Mr. Petit said that when he first came to Fremont county in 1865 it was one hundred miles to the nearest railroad, and freight had to be hauled that distance by teams or brought up the Missouri river in flat boats, and hauled by teams from the landing there. Mr.Petit has been a reader of the SUN a good many years and though living at a distance from here, through the columns of the SUN keeps posted on Sidney's advancement. N.B.: If the pioneers of Fremont county thought they had a long way to haul supplies, think about the supplies that had to reach the Pottawatomie Indians, or Fort Croghan. This need for decent roads lead Field's Trace, and to the old Council Bluffs - St. Joseph road. High (Bridge) Creek still exists to remind us of that distant past. Petit referred to the later, various landings on the Missouri river, which saw so much use before freight could be brought into the county by railroad-- about 1868 or 1869.. The Hamburg landing was probably the best known, followed by the Kingsbury landing which served the northernmost parts of the county. One of the McKissicks had a warehouse, storehouse, at the Hamburg landing, and Harlow Kingsbury had the same at his landing. Merchants in counties along the East Nishnabotna above Fremont county seemed to perfer hauling freight from the Hamburg Landing. Moses Payne had a landing in the old Baker's Oven area south of Nebraska City, say five or six miles, mainly for his own use, but which was often used by Sidney and called the Sidney Landing. Another landing which comes to mind was the one opposite Nebraska City, or Eastport Landing. There was a woodyard at Civil Bend, but I don't recall of seeing anything about it being used for landing freight.--W.F.