Drury's Landing

For a number of years, the site of the settlement of the Drury family was called Drury's Landing, and considerable business centered about it. The present city of Muscatine is about four miles below the old settlement.

The energy of the Drury family resulted in the establishment of a general store, a post office, and the upbuilding of a large trade in grain and pork, and during the early days Drury's Landing was one of the principal trading points between St. Louis and Rock Island.

As long as the country depended upon the Mississippi river for the carrying of its commerce, the landing was a stopping place for the steamers, but now the place is abandoned, and it only exists in the memory of the old settlers, as a commercial center.

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and
History of Mercer County, 1914

Submitted by Mary Lou Schaechter