From the historical marker:
Sunrise - In 1874 Alexander Banes, a former slave, purchased property which he sold to Sunrise Realty Co. in 1905. About 1906 the Missouri Pacific Railroad began using a train ferry to cross the Mississippi River causing a great spurt in the population of Sunrise. The town that once stood here has vanished into history.
Sunrise - A place (not a time of day) of green and golden pages turned slowly enough to hear bees whispering in the clover and smell the season of the river in the fog and dust. It must be there still in the trees and the spaces where people live and children play in barefoot memories.
The area is now a Exxon refinery.
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