• Looking up at the Gateway Arch

    Jefferson

    National Expansion Memorial Missouri

Sgt. John Ordway

Drawing of John Ordway
Sketch copyright by Michael Haynes.
 
P.S. At the end of the expedition I accompanied Capt. Lewis and a party of Indians to Washington, D.C., took my discharge and returned to New Hampshire. I returned to Missouri to settle in 1809, became prosperous and married. Both I and my wife had died by 1817.
 
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The insertion of the last piece of the Gateway Arch

The Gateway Arch at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial was completed on October 28, 1965.  To learn more about the construction of the Gateway Arch click here. More...