Corps of Discovery - New Haven, MO - 'You Are Here' Maps on Waymarking.com

County of location: Franklin County
Where are You: Main St., Levee House Bed & Breakfast lawn, Miller's Landing, New Haven
Map prepared by James D. Harlan, University of Missouri Geographical Resources Center, for Lewis and Clark Historic Landscape Project, funded by the Office of Secretary of State

JOHN COLTER John Colter was one of the "nine young men from Kentucky" who joined the Corps of Discovery in October 1803. He proved useful to the expedition as a hunter. In the years following the expedition, Colter led a remarkable life as a trapper and trader. His discovery of "Colter's Hell" (Yellowstone Park) and his amazing escape from the Blackfeet Indians in 1809 made him a legend. About 1810, he married and settled down on a farm near New haven where the English naturalist John Bradbury met him in 1811 while on a river expedition. Bradbury said that Colter accompanied them for several miles up the river and "seemed to have a strong inclination to join the expedition but having been lately married, he reluctantly took leave of us." Colter died of jaundice in 1813 and was buried somewhere near New Haven. His actual burial place is still somewhat of a mystery.

[Ed. Note: Family members and historians believe they have discovered his burial site, and have placed a marker there. Some reports say he died of jaundice, some say gangrene. He was a private (once again) in the Missouri Rangers. This being active under the command of Nathan Boone during the War of 1812. That headstone photo is included in the gallery.]

RÉGIS LOISEL "Régis Loisel was apparently born in the Parish of L'Assomption, Montreal, and came to St. Louis in about 1793. By 1796 he had formed a partnership with Jacques Clamorgan, which in 1798 became the reorganized Missouri Company. After this combination broke up, he formed a new partnership with Hugh Heney on July 6, 1801. The date on which he founded his fort on Cedar Island is uncertain; it may have been in 1800, or perhaps two years later. For the post, in present Lyman County, South Dakota, September 22, 1804. Loisel wintered there with his partner, Pierre-Antoine Tabeau, in 1803 -04. After his meeting with Lewis and Clark, he carried to New Orleans a copy of his report on the Missouri River tribes, which he delivered to the Marquis of Casa Calvo, the former Spanish governor of Louisiana. The latter forwarded it to Madrid, with a recommendation that Loisel be made an Indian agent to secure the friendship of the tribes for Spain and forestall American ambitions in the West. Loisel, however, died in New Orleans in October 1804, at the age of thirty-one. " ~ Lewis and Clark Trail: Journal Entries

Location Name: Miller's Landing levee, New Haven, MO

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