TAVERN ROCK CAVE
N 38° 34.830 W 090° 46.302
15S E 694097 N 4272580
ST. ALBANS, TAVERN ROCK CAVE MARKER
Waymark Code: WMYRQ
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 11/16/2006
Views: 64
Lewis and Clark visited the cave on May 23, 1804
"We passed a large Cave on the Ldb. Side (called by the french the Tavern)about 120 feet wide 40 feet Deep and 20 feet high many different immages are Painted on the Rock at the place The Inds. and French pay omage. Many names are wrote on the rock, Stoped about one mile above for Capt. Lewis who had assended the Clifts ... hanging over the waters... near falling from the Pinecles of rocks 300 feet, he caught at 20 foot".
Cave is in the vicinity of St. Albans, Missouri.
NO PUBLIC ACCESS....NO PUBLIC ACCESS!!!
ALONG ACTIVE RAILROAD TRACK!!!!CAUTION..
Visible from the river.
For more information contact Property Manager:
1-573-548-6523
I was fortunate enough to gain the Land Owners permission to recover the Tavern Rock Reset Benchmark.
200 years and 1 day after Lewis and Clark passed this point.
It has since been destroyed with new construction in the area.
It sit's on the NGS State Advisor's desk now.
This waymark does not require you visit the Cave but there are interpretive signs and Historically Registerd places in St. Albans.
MERIWETHER LEWIS HOMESITE,HEADS STORE,KATY TRAIL AND MUCH MORE.
Get an image of you at one of them as a requirement.
While in St. Albans, check out the old town and stop in Heads Store, a trip back into the 50's. Get a snack or a sandwich and sit in a rocker on the front porch and enjoy the day.
"Must Sees"at this location":
INTERPRETIVE SIGN #5,THE STORE,ST. ALBANS LAKE AND MANY OTHER HISTORIC FEATURES OF ST. ALBANS AND SURROUNDING AREA
Date Waymark Created: 11/16/2006
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Visits only will be logged if there is a picture of the individual at the location, with their GPS in hand submitted as proof of the visit or not having a camera, the person making the find must submit a reasonable "proof" of having visited the site. Examples include: Two or three sentence quote from historical/interpretive signage at the location; adequate descriptive language about the location that provides evidence of a visit; verification by another party present at the find; e-mail sent from the location of the waymark.