Author
Lorna Hainesworth
Lewis and Clark Trust, Inc. (founding member)
Lorna Hainesworth is a researcher and writer focused on the Eastern Legacy of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: the people, routes, and preparations east of the Mississippi that made the journey west possible. A founding member of the Lewis and Clark Trust, Inc., she has written extensively on figures such as surveyor Andrew Ellicott and on the historic roads and waterways of the early republic, publishing through Lornament Press. Her articles trace the expedition's connections to the National Road, the Cumberland Gap, the Baltimore-to-Cumberland turnpikes, and the Corps of Discovery's service in the War of 1812.
6 Research Articles
Andrew Ellicott: America’s Premier Surveyor
The early republic's premier surveyor — and the man who taught Meriwether Lewis celestial navigation in the spring of 1803.
Difficulties Made Easy: A History of Travel Routes Between Baltimore and Cumberland
The turnpikes between Baltimore and Cumberland — the eastern road network behind the drive to bind the new nation's West to its seaboard.
Meriwether Lewis’s Survey at Cumberland Gap
Two months after the expedition's return, Meriwether Lewis ran a boundary survey at the Cumberland Gap — November 23, 1806.
Open a Wide Door, Make a Smooth Way: The Historic National Road
The first federally funded highway — and the East-West corridor Jefferson championed in the same years he launched the expedition.
Planning a Transcontinental Journey
A neglected June 6, 1803 letter — missing from Jackson's Letters — reveals Lewis the meticulous quartermaster outfitting the expedition.
The Corps in the War of 1812
Brief lives of thirty-plus Corps of Discovery veterans and associates and what they did in the War of 1812.
