Our free-flowing Missouri River remains the lasting legacy of Lewis and Clark. Along the KATY Trail near Rocheport one can still see the ancient Native American pictographs and a pierced rock formation noted in the journals. Further downstream is the rock formation William Clark climbed that he called Lead Mine Hill. Near the mouth of the Osage is another hill WilliamClark climbed – Clark’s Hil… Read more >

The Corps of Discovery traveled the Missouri River, passing our limestone bluffs in June 1804 and again in September 1806. In 1822 our City was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the only capital city in the nation so named.

President Thomas Jefferson, great reader, thinker and armchair explorer, dreamed of a voyage up the Missouri River and on to the Pacific Ocean. The dream became reality with the completion of the great Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and President Jefferson commissioning the Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Although Thomas Jefferson never set foot on Missouri soil, the citizens of Jefferson… Read more >

St. Louis artist L. Edward Fisher was given a unique commission by the Missouri Bankers Association in anticipation of their centennial and the Lewis and Clark bicentennial. He was to chronicle the journey of Lewis and Clark in Missouri, then update that same scene 100 years later, and again in 200 years. The first two originals, capturing the view seen in 1804 and 1904, hang today in the Mis… Read more >