Millers Landing is located on the north shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, approximately 4 miles (6.5 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska. The local name was first documented by the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1950s. Millers Landing is named after Charles Miller, who homesteaded the area around 1915. He constructed a landing site in a small bight in Kachemak Bay, where supply barges from Seldovia could dock and unload cargo.

Charles Miller was born on July 1, 1881, in Mannheim, Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1903 and arrived in Homer, Alaska, in 1915 as an employee of the Alaska Railroad. That winter, he pastured 95 horses owned by the railroad on the native grasses of the Homer Spit. The livestock were likely barged to the area and removed the same way the following spring. At the time, Seldovia was the only deepwater port for Cook Inlet; ocean-going vessels stopped there to transfer cargo to smaller vessels for other Cook Inlet communities. Miller built a road from a beach landing to provide access to the grasslands near what is now Miller’s Landing. He was also known for making moonshine from homegrown potatoes, double-distilled to intensify the alcohol content. From 1925 to 1930, Miller was a fox farmer. He died in 1970 and is buried in the Homer Community Cemetery.

In 2002, Millers Landing was annexed to Homer and is now home to a boatyard and a vessel haul-out facility. The facility features a dock built over tidelands leased from the City of Homer. The dock is equipped with a travel lift capable of handling vessels up to 70 feet (21 m) in length with a draft of 8.5 feet (2.5 m). Read more here and here. Explore more of Millers Landing and Kachemak Bay here: