Expedition place · September 1, 1803 – September 11, 1803
Ohio River, near Wheeling, Virginia
3 journal entries · Recorded by Meriwether Lewis
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The journal entries written here
September 1803
Sep 7
Meriwether Lewis: September 7, 1803
Meriwether Lewis
“September the 7thFoggy this morning according to custom; set out at half past seven, and in about two hundred paces stuck on…”
Sep 8
Meriwether Lewis: September 8, 1803
Meriwether Lewis
“8th this day wrote to the President, purchased a perogue and hired a man to work her, my men were much fatiegued…”
Sep 9
Meriwether Lewis: September 9, 1803
Meriwether Lewis
“9th SeptThe Dr could not get ready I waited untill thre[e] this evening and then set out had some difficulty in geting…”
Nights the Corps camped here
- Sep 7 – Sep 8, 1803 Wheeling, VA (now WV), Main-Market Entries for Sep 7 – Sep 8, 1803
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino; Harlan where he is the only source). Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
