Charlottesville,
Virginia: The Trip West Began Here !
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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.
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2008 Workshops for Kids
Take part in our Saturday and Sunday workshops in August and September. Learn about beading and painting and boat-building, go on a keelboat voyage of discovery, and more!
Come visit us!
We are open at the Keelboat Barn in Darden Towe Park Saturday, 10-4, and Sunday 12-4, through October. Admission $3 per adult, $1 per child. Special arrangements made for groups. Please call 434-979-2425.
Visit our 55-ft. keelboat replica and learn the skills of an explorer. Children can earn a variety of badges: an apprentice boatbuilder's badge, the art badge; the Explorer's Badge. Mapmaking, drawing, knot-tying and building a dug-out canoe are some of the activities that take place at the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center.
The Keelboat Barn will be open rain or shine.
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Join the Mailing List
Would you like to be on the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center mailing list? By adding on, you'll be kept informed of all our events from the Annual Boat Race to historical lectures and tours. Join the list.
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Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 281
Charlottesville, Va. 22902
Phone: (434)979-2425
Physical Address:
401 McIntire Rd., 2nd floor
Charlottesville, Va.
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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: August 26, 2008
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