Saturday, May 8, 2021

Lewis & Clark Trip Day 1: Steubenville, OH Murals (5/8/2021)

Saturday, May 8, 2021 (continued)

*On 9/6/1803, the Corps of Discovery neared Steubenville where they were able to hoist the sail for a short distance, but then had to hire a team of oxen to pull the keelboat over a riffle/gravel bar.*

We entered Steubenville by crossing the
Ohio River from Weirton, WV on
Veterans Memorial Bridge (1979-1990),
a cable-stayed bridge
We had a river-view room at the hotel! Veterans Memorial
Bridge and the Steubenville Railroad Bridge (1926),
a continuous Baltimore through truss bridge
We were in Steubenville, OH on 4/10/2021, but today we checked out the murals that led to the nickname "City of Murals."
Stanton Park (2015?)
Medical Heritage
Look what they did to the Sinclair Building!
(1914-1915 in Beaux-Arts style)
Drug Store
Honor Roll
Franciscan University (1989, by Alan Wylie)
Market Street (1986, by Michael Wojczuk)
Ladies of the Seminary
Sacred Heart of Mary (2016, by Ruston Baker)
Banking Pioneers
1897 Centennial Arch (1992, by Eric Grohe)
Ohio River Oil Company (by Robert Dafford)
"Hang on" Sloopy (by Ruston Baker) honors the inspiration
for the song that became the official state rock song for Ohio
anthem of the Ohio State University Marching Band
Tuskegee Warriors (2019, by Ruston Baker) honors
Steubenville brothers Jerome and Ellis Edwards
Steel Memories (by Eric Grohe)
Stone Quarry
Steam Laundry (by Robert Dafford)
The River Reflects
Moses Fleetwood Walker (2018, by Ruston Baker)
Civil War Telegraph Office (2015, by Ruston Baker)
His First Deposit
Old Reliance Firehouse
Rotary Club
Dean Martin (1997, by Robert Dever)
Pioneer Days (1997, by Eric Grohe)
Life-size figures of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra,
Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr) decorate
Scaffidi's Restaurant & Tavern where we had dinner
Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 2.

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