Sailing past Steubenville
Frederick William Augustus, Baron Von Steuben
by Charles Willson Peale, 1781–82
Oil on canvas, 23 x 20 inches. Courtesy Independence National Historic Park.
got on pretty well to Steuwbenville, which we past at 2 Oc. . . . struck on a riffle about two miles below the town hoisted our mainsail to assist in driving us over the riffle the wind blew so heard as to break the spreat of it, and now having no assistance but by manual exertion and my men woarn down by perpetual lifting I was obliged again to have recourse to my usual resort and sent out in serch of horses or oxen—
—Meriwether Lewis
Stewbenville a small town situated on the Ohio in the state of Ohio about six miles above Charlestown in Virginia and 24 above Wheeling—is small well built thriving place has several respectable families residing in it, five years since it was a wilderness—
—Meriwether Lewis
Circa 1786, a fort was built at the present Steubenville town-site to protect surveyors sent by Congress to survey the Northwest Territory. Today, the reconstructed Fort Steuben and the original Federal Land Office buildings are open to the public.
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