- City:
- Hohenwald, TN
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Parks and Recreation, Museums, Monuments and Memorials
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
This monument marks the spot where the explorer Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis and Clark duo) died as he was traveling along what later became part of the Natchez Trace Parkway.
The site had been marked as early as 1848. “In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration and CCC workers camped at the site built a cabin museum a few feet southwest of the Grinder’s Stand site [the inn Lewis had stayed at]. While their original objective was to duplicate the design of Grinder’s Stand, no reliable description could be located.” (wikipedia)
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinder%27s_StandAt this Location:
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