Stop 5 of 16

Heavy Boat in Low Water, 6 September 1803

East Liverpool and Steubenville, OH

Curtesy: East Liverpool, OH City Government; Thomas Hutchins, U S Surveyor, Beginning Point for Northwest Territory Survey. — Curtesy: East Liverpool, OH City Government

Thomas Hutchins, U S Surveyor, Beginning Point for Northwest Territory Survey.

Lewis, 4 August 1803, ….passed line….visible from timber having been felled about sixty feet wide. ⁽¹⁾

"got on pretty well to Steubenville which we past at 2 OC." 2 miles below stuck on riffles again and returned to Steubenville in search of horses or oxen to pull boat over riffle”. ⁽¹⁾

First Federal Land Office, Ft. Steuben, OH

Ft. Steuben, 1st. location on 3rd. Street approximately 2 blocks from the Ohio River. — Ft. Steuben, 1^st. location on 3^rd. Street approximately 2 blocks from the Ohio River.

Courtesy: Old Ft. Steuben

Source:

(1) Quaife, Milo, The Journals of Lewis and Ordway, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, page8 and 9. Moulton, Gary, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, V-2, University of Nebraska Press, page71 and 73.