Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 28, 1809
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 43
Additional Source Text:
"About 17 feet under the surface of the Earth, accompanied by various broken Pots &c. It is supposed that at some former period a walled well had been there."
This artifact appears on a long list of "Articles collected by Meriwether Lewis Esqr. and William Clark Esq. in their voyage and Journey of Discovery, up the Missouri to its source and to the Pacific Ocean, presented at different periods, through the president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson."
Notes:
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) undertook their western Expedition in 1804-1806.
La Grande Saline was a settlement about six miles southwest of present-day Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
