Gaines Landing was on a stretch of the Mississippi River known as the Greenville BendsLandmarks near the confluence of the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, showing roads to and from Gaines LandingGaines Landing, Arkansas, and environs, mapped 1862Gaines Landing and Gasters Landing, both "burned June 15, 1863," as mapped during Reconstruction in Arkansas1866 table of distances between landings along the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans
Gaines Landing (also Gaines' Landing and Gaines's Landing) is an extinct settlement in Chicot County, Arkansas, United States that once hosted a boat landing along the Mississippi River. The location played a role in the story of fugitive slave Margaret Garner (whose life was the basis of Toni Morrison's Beloved), and was used for troop movements during the American Civil War.
