Washington City..................becomes Washington District of Columbia........shortly after an expedition comes home..............................i was Merriweather Lewis..........i still can't spell...............it has improved a little........

Botany..........France..........................the French botanist.......Andre M..........was president Jefferson's 1st choice...................his own government in France told Andre M to say no..........so he trained me...........in the White House for two years................to lead the expedition to the Columbia river gorge........................................Virginia then gobbles up a bit of DC's South West corner........taking its corner stone as well........placed there by the great polymath.......Ben Banneker..................a light house..............Jones Point..............Storm of the C. indeed..............Steve King.........





Monticello is a bit South from Clarendon though....

Editorial Note: Jefferson and André Michaux’s Proposed Western Expedition

Jefferson and André Michaux’s Proposed Western Expedition
Editorial Note

Discovered in the vault of the American Philosophical Society in 1979 with supporting financial papers described below, this signed text of the subscription for André Michaux, together with the instructions to the French botanist printed under 30 Apr. 1793, represents the fullest expression, previous to the expedition of Lewis and Clark, of Jefferson’s longstanding interest in promoting American exploration of the vast territory beyond the Mississippi that he was destined as President to add to the national domain and that he came to regard as the foundation of an “empire for liberty” (APS, Year Book [1979], 158–60; TJ to James Madison, 27 Apr. 1809)