Not only is there a historical marker in Wellsburg, West Virginia for Patrick Gass, who lived there after the War of 1812, but there is another one about a Lewis & Clark connection for the town.
From the Historical Marker Project.
THE LEWIS & CLARK CONNECTION
The Corps of Discovery, under the command of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was the first official expedition through the interior of the continent sponsored by the United States.
Captain Meriwether Lewis passed Charles Town in Virginia (later renamed Welsburg) on September 7, 1803. Lewis brought the expedition's keelboat down the Ohio River to rendezvous with William Clark near Louisville, Kentucky.
He wrote in his journal:
"...passed Charles town on the E. shore above the mouth of the Buffaloe over which there is a hansome wooden bridge, this has the appearance of a handsome little village, containing about forty houses...."
Meriwether Lewis, September 7, 1803.
The expedition spent the winter of 1803-1804 at a camp located by what is today Wood River, Illinois, preparing for their arduous journey to the Pacific and back.
--Brock-Perry
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