The Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Volcanoguy
N 45° 39.026 W 120° 57.645
10T E 658894 N 5057231
This sign is at Celilo Park on the Columbia River.
Waymark Code: WMZB6
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2006
Views: 19
This is one of two signs on the north side of the parking lot.
Marker Name: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Marker Text: In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this “Corps of Discovery” to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Along the way, they mapped the land, recorded its resources, and contacted its native inhabitants.
The landscape has changed since Lewis and Clark explored it: rivers have been dammed, forests cut over, prairies plowed under, and roads built to the horizon. Although remnants of wilderness still exist, imagine this land as Lewis and Clark first saw it two centuries ago.
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