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Caption: Marker detail: Lewis & Clark 1803-1806
Additional Description: In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent an expedition commanded by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, to seek an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean, and to make peaceable contact with the native peoples. On May 14, 1804, the explorers headed up the Missouri. They reached the Pacific in November, 1805. They returned to St. Louis on September 23, 1806, having traveled more than 8000 miles in two years, four months and nine days.
Submitted: November 25, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p552236
File Size: 1.994 Megabytes

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