"we determin to delay at this Place"

"we determin to delay at this Place" (HM10I2)

Location: Kansas City, KS 66115 Wyandotte County
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Country: United States of America
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N 39° 6.99', W 94° 36.641'

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"...we determin to delay at this Place three or four Days to make observations & recruit the party..."
Captain William Clark
June 27, 1804


On June 26, 1804, the U.S. Army expedition led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark stopped at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers. The men had a very busy three days repairing their damaged pirogue, drying their supplies, and observing the animals. The officers dealt with a discipline problem; one man received fifty lashes and another received one hundred lashes for becoming drunk on guard duty. This was the first discipline problem, since leaving St. Charles, Missouri, that led to a court martial.

The men built a small fort of logs and brush called a redoubt on a piece of land between the Kaw and Missouri Rivers (today known as Kaw Point) to serve as defense against any potential Indian attack.

A Series of Firsts
As Lewis and Clark passed through here, they had a series of "firsts."

The expedition saw buffalo for the first time. Captain Lewis also observed and described the Carolina Parkakeet [sic] for the first and only time during the journey.

[Background illustration] "Far removed from the Sivilised world..." Image courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation.

This illustration depicts Kaw Point on the Missouri River at the time of Lewis and Clark. It is one section of a fifty-foot-long mural on public display at the Missouri Department of Conservation's Discovery Center, located at 4750 Troost in downtown Kansas City, MO.
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HM NumberHM10I2
Series This marker is part of the Lewis & Clark Expedition series
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Placed ByNational Park Service and Kansas Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission
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Date Added Sunday, September 28th, 2014 at 6:19am PDT -07:00
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"we determin to delay at this Place"
39.11650000, -94.61068333
UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 360753 N 4330939
Decimal Degrees39.11650000, -94.61068333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 6.99', W 94° 36.641'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 6' 59.40" N, 94° 36' 38.46" W
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Area Code(s)913
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 520 Boardwalk, Kansas City KS 66115, US
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