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| Historic Marker 2214 at the Shelby County Courthouse |
Kentucky has a lot of connections with the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition. A few years ago in commemoration of the bicentennial of the expedition, Kentucky erected a number of historic markers commemorating these connections.
Marker 2214 in Shelbyville reads:
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, leaders of the 1803-06 journety to the Pacific, visited Shelbyville several times. In Nov. 1806, on the Expedition’s return, Lewis arrived with Expedition veterans, Mandan & Osage Indian delegations bound for Washington, DC.
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In Shelbyville on Oct. 28, 1809, Clark learned of the death of his Expedition partner, Meriwether Lewis. Clark stopped in town when traveling eastward and read a newspaper report that Lewis had killed himself in Tennessee.
Clark, of course, was a Kentuckian. Lewis was a Virginian and was President Jefferson’s personal secretary when he was tapped to lead the expedition. William Clark was selected upon the recommendation of his brother, George Rogers Clark. [cite]