The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center

Charlottesville, Virginia: The Trip West Began Here !

Charlottesville is proud to be the starting point for the dreaming, planning and training for what became the Lewis and Clark exploration of the West. Its Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia proposes to build an interactive museum and provide educational and intriguing experiences for children, youth and adults, focusing on the expedition’s legacy in Virginia. Although the Center as a building doesn’t yet exist, the board already provides projects and activities in Albemarle County and in downtown Charlottesville. Explore this website to find what we’re doing, how you can join us, and about related activities and research taking place in Virginia.

The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center
Invites you to an
Open House and Boat Auction
Saturday, April 26, 2008
3 to 5 PM
at the Keelboat Barn in Darden Towe Park
See directions below

Bluegrass Music by Andy Thacker
Light Refreshments
and the New Keelboat Cabin, Awnings, and Mast on View

Auction of a Variety of River Craft at 4 PM.

keelboat

Summer Programs begin in May 2008

Our summer programs will be under way on weekends, from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 12:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m. on Sundays. We hope you can join us!

Directions: To get to the Keelboat Barn, take the 250 bypass East over Free Bridge. Take a left onto 20 North. Watch for the Darden Towe Park sign to your left. Drive into Darden Towe Park, then take a right. Drive past the parking lot areas until you see the Keelboat Barn (rustic) directly ahead. Park in the parking lot or on the grass nearer the Keelboat barn.

The Keelboat Barn will be open rain or shine. Admission is free.

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Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 281
Charlottesville, Va. 22902
Phone: (434)979-2425

Physical Address:
County Office Building--South
1600 5th Street
Charlottesville, Va.
and
Keel Boat Barn at
Darden Towe Park

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Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness & perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline, intimate with the Indian character, customs & principles, habituated to the hunting life, guarded by exact observation of the vegetables & animals of his own country . . ."
-Thomas Jefferson on Meriwether Lewis

Last Update: April 17, 2008


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