Friday, April 9, 2021
*Remember that on 6/17/1803 Meriwether Lewis left Philadelphia for Washington, DC.
On 6/19/1803, Meriwether Lewis arrived in Washington, DC. There he wrote a letter to William Clark asking him to join Lewis on a trip to the Pacific.*
Today we left for Washington, DC.
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Grant Park Circle in Washington, DC (circles were part
of the city plan conceived by Pierre L'Enfant)
did not have a statue of Ulysses S Grant |
On 7/5/1803, Meriwether Lewis left Washington, DC for Harpers Ferry.*
This time we were able to drive along the Maryland side of the Potomac River.
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| Redbud blossoms provided color on this gray day |
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| View up the Potomac River towards Harpers Ferry |
*On 6/28/1803, the Conestoga wagon from Philadelphia had arrived in Harpers Ferry to pick up supplies. However, having also picked up items in Lancaster, the wagon was already full and did not add to the load in Harpers Ferry.
On 7/7/1803, Meriwether Lewis arrived in Harpers Ferry. Lewis had to secure another wagon with driver and team to take weapons and other articles from Harpers Ferry to Pittsburgh.
On 7/8/1803, Lewis left Harpers Ferry for Pittsburgh.
On 7/9/1803, the wagon with guns and supplies departed Harpers Ferry for Pittsburgh.*
Meriwether Lewis planned on taking the route of Charlestown, Frankfort (Fort Ashby), Uniontown and Redstone Old Fort to Pittsburgh. Based on roads of the time that could handle heavily-laden wagons, it is believed that Lewis traveled through Winchester, VA, Cumberland, MD, and Brownsville, PA on his way to Pittsburgh.
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Winchester, VA: Old Stone Presbyterian Church (1788,
by Scotch-Irish settlers) was certainly present
when Meriwether Lewis passed through town |
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Winchester, VA: Statue of Daniel Morgan, a
Revolutionary War general who commanded
the Frederick Militia aka "Morgan's Riflemen" |
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Approaching Cumberland, MD: note the gap
(Cumberland Narrows) in the mountains (KSS) |
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Cumberland, MD: Canal Place on the site of the
western terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio/C&O Canal,
with the Western Maryland Railway Station (1913,
by C M Anderson) that was built over the canal |
The Chesapeake & Ohio/C&O Canal operated from 1831 to 1924, with construction of the 184.5 miles lasting from 1828 to 1850.
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Mule and His Driver (2000, by Antonio Tobias “Toby” Mendez);
mules were used to pull the C&O Canal barges |
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Section of Crossroads of America Mural (2016, by Parris Ashley)
depicting British General Braddock with young Colonel
George Washington during the French & Indian Wars |
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Another section of the Crossroads of America Mural
showing a canal boat on the C&O Canal |
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Cumberland, MD: Water discharge chute for steam
locomotives, at the Western Maryland Railway Station |
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| Cumberland, MD: View of several spires of the skyline |
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| Part of the Cumberland Basin of the C&O Canal terminus |
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| View toward Guard Lock #8 of the C&O Canal terminus |
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Cumberland. MD's Blue Bridge (1954-1955) crossing
the Northern Branch Potomac River |
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| Part of the Cumberland Basin of the C&O Canal |
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A Celtic Cross (2014) commemorates the
Irish laborers who died building the C&O Canal
and the Baltimore & Ohio/B&O Railroad |
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| Front/bow of a replica canal boat (KSS) |
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| Rear/stern of the replica canal boat (KSS) |
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| Close-up of Cercis canadensis/Redbud blossoms |
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Uniontown/Brownsville, PA: Searight's Tollhouse (1835) is
one of two remaining (out of six) tollhouses in PA, built
to collect tolls on the old National Road (built 1811-1818) |
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Searight's Tollhouse sculptures of a drover
leading his sheep to market |
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A small plaque marks the site of Redstone Old Fort (1759)
that was built on a Native American earthwork mound,
in what is now Brownsville, PA; above it is Nemacolin's Castle
(1789, by Jacob Bowman) built on the site of the fort |
*On 7/17/1803, Meriwether Lewis mentioned Elizabeth, PA while waiting for his 55-foot keelboat to be built. Perhaps his first pirogue, a small canoe-like boat, was built in Elizabeth.*
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Was the Corps of Discovery keelboat constructed on the
Monongahela River in Elizabeth, PA? |
We followed the Monongahela River to Homestead, PA, south of Pittsburgh, to spend the night.
Next: Lewis & Clark Trip 3 B.
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