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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRI4_york-the-slave_Cairo-IL.html
York was the first known African American to cross the American continent. In the company of Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery, from 1803-1806, he shared equally with them the rigors of the journey, but when the corps was honored, he received no …
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William B. Duncan, Chairman of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, presented this Rodman smooth bore cannon to the city of Cairo as a gift, May 27, 1905. The gun saw action for both sides of the Civil War at Fort Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, in 1861, to prote…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCRT_the-ohio-river-bridge_Cairo-IL.html
Completed November 11, 1933Freed of Tolls November 11, 1948byThe Cairo Bridge CommissionThe Ohio River Bridge was conceived and built in the public interest by the Cairo Bridge Commission with the cooperation of the Federal Emergency Administratio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCRS_the-beginning-of-the-third-principal-meridian_Cairo-IL.html
The beginning ofthe ThirdPrincipal Meridianis locatedin the Ohio River1,810 feetdirectly northof this point.In November, 1803,this was the mouthof the Ohio River.At this location,the Lewis & ClarkCorps of Discoveryencamped forsix days.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCRR_lewis-and-clark-in-illinois_Cairo-IL.html
On November 14, 1803, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their party landed at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the site of the present day Cairo. They spent nearly a week here, learning how to determine longitude and latitude, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCRP_historical-survey-marker_Cairo-IL.html
The beginning ofthe ThirdPrincipal Meridianis located in the Ohio River1,735 feetdirectly northof this point.In November, 1803,this was the mouthof the Ohio River.At this location,the Lewis and ClarkCorps of Discoveryencamped forsix days.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCRN_lewis-clark_Cairo-IL.html
Charting the ConfluenceOn November 14, 1803, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the Corps of Discovery stayed for six days, one of the longest stops made by the expedition. Here, they saw the Mississippi for the first time, note…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCR9_cairo-illinois_Cairo-IL.html
Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, a French Jesuit, reported as early as 1721 that the land at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers would be a strategic location for settlement and fortification. Nearly a century later, in 1818, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCR6_proceeding-on_Cairo-IL.html
In November, 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their growing contingent of "Corps of Discovery" men, spent five days here teaching each other celestial navigation and surveying skills. Using a sextant, octant, artificial horizon, and re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCR3_the-meeting-of-the-rivers_Cairo-IL.html
Long known to the Indian who used the two great rivers as his highways for trade and war, this junction of the Ohio and the Mississippi was first sighted by Europeans when Marquette and Joliet glided past in 1673. Ten years later La Salle explored…
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