Lewis & Clark Trip Day 10: Jefferson City, MO (5/17/2021)

Monday, May 17, 2021 (continued)

Now we have arrived in Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri.

*On 6/4/1804, the keelboat's mast was broken off by a tree branch hanging over the Missouri River. The Corps of Discovery stopped to make repairs.*

Lohman Building (1839) served as a grocery store, warehouse,
tavern, telegraph office and hotel at Jefferson Landing,
one of a few remaining river-front landings on the Missouri

Lewis & Clark Monument (dedicated 6/4/2008,
by Sabra Tull Meyer)

York (while there is no record of what the
African-American slave looked like,
this version has been criticized)

Meriwether Lewis and his dog, Seaman

William Clark

George Drouillard, who was hired after he
tracked down other recruits, was a civilian
interpreter, scout, hunter, and cartographer

Fountain of the [Ichthyo] Centaurs (1927, by
Adolph Alexander Weinman) and Signing of the
Louisiana Purchase Agreement (1927, by Karl Bitter)

The Signing sculpture features Robert Livingston
(US Minister to France), Livingston's assistant
James Monroe (seated), and François
de Barbé-Marbois, the French treasury minister,
when the treaty was signed on 4/10/1803 in Paris

Missouri Law Enforcement Memorial (1994)

Sculptors must have an inside joke about the
profiles of rooftop statues; however this statue (1924)
is Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture

Missouri State Capitol (1917, by Tracy and Swartwout
in Classical style with similarities to the US Capitol)

Allegorical statue (c 1933, by Robert Ingersoll Aitken)
of the Great River of Missouri

Allegorical statue (c 1933, by Robert Ingersoll Aitken)
of the Great River of Mississippi

Missouri State Capitol

~On 5/22/1999, Ada and Bert S visited the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, MO.~

1999 View of the Missouri State Capitol

Statue (1926, erected 1937, by
James Earle Fraser) of Thomas Jefferson

Missouri State Capitol rotunda

Meriwether Lewis was Governor of the
Louisiana Territory from 1807-1809

William Clark was Governor of the
Missouri Territory from 1813-1820

Lunette mural of The Mouth of the Osage River:
The Lewis and Clark Landing: June 1st, 1804

One of the busts of notable Missourians:
Harry S Truman

Although not born in Missouri, several
busts are of people claimed by Missouri,
such as Sakagawea

William Clark gets a full statue ...

... plus a lunette mural, Clark Stops for Repairs

Meriwether Lewis, this time in
"frontier garb" ...

... but back in dress uniform for his lunette mural,
Lewis Joins His Hunting Party

Missouri State Capitol Lamp (KSS)

A peek through the door window to see the
mural of President Jefferson Greeting
Lewis and Clark in the Senate Chamber

Hotel Frederick (1905 in Romanesque Revival style),
our historic hotel in Boonville, MO

Hotel Frederick room

Hotel Frederick bathroom

Hotel Frederick bathroom

Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 11.