What is English Landing Park?
[[Image:Canada Geese on the Missouri River. PHOTO WALK ENGLISH LANDING PARK (41624903745).jpg|thumb|250px|[[Canada goose]] on the [[Missouri River]], English Landing Park, June 2018]] '''English Landing Park''' is along the [[Missouri River]] in Parkville, Missouri, [[United States]]. There is a set of train tracks that runs along the park. It has a jogging/biking trail, several shelters for picnics, a soccer field, a baseball diamond, volleyball courts, two playgrounds and a nine-hole Frisbee golf course. The area of English Landing Park was bought in 1838. The Power Plant Restaurant, which sits right next to the railroad tracks at the entrance to the park, was built in the mid-19th century as a coal-fired twin-boiler power plant that fed the entire city. The park later became a civil war port for the slave trade. Parkville was not a Civil War battlefield, but there was still mass genocide as numerous slaves tried desperately to escape across the river into Free [[Kansas]]. These slaves were buried in three large unmarked cemeteries. After the Civil War, the port was abandoned and the area slowly changed from a bustling city to what is Parkville. The park includes the historic Bridge, built 1898 which spanned Linn Branch Creek. == Flooding == During the [[Great Flood of 1993]], the park and most of Downtown Parkville were submerged under more than 15 feet of water.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-28|title=Discovering Kansas City, Missouri, & KansasMemories of 1993 Parkville Flood Float Back|url=https://discoveringkansascity.blog/2019/03/28/memories-of-1993-parkville-flood-float-back/|access-date=2020-11-12|website=Discovering Kansas City, Missouri, & Kansas|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112212305/https://discoveringkansascity.blog/2019/03/28/memories-of-1993-parkville-flood-float-back/|url-status=dead}}</ref> On May 4, 2003, English Landing Park narrowly missed an EF1 tornado that came across the river and cut damage paralleling the railroad tracks befor