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On October 14, 1803, Meriwether Lewis came from Washington, D.C., and met William Clark at the Falls of the Ohio, where, while quartered at the George Rogers Clark Homesite and fulfilling a presidential order by Thomas Jefferson, they recruited, enlisted, and trained the leadership of the military expedition to explore the American West. On October 26, 1803, the Corps of Discovery departed from Clarksville at the Falls of the Ohio on its journey to the Pacific Ocean to explore the American West, and on November 5, 1806, Lewis and Clark returned to the Falls of the Ohio. The Jeffersonville limestone base came from the Devonian Coral Period, is 387,000,000 years old, and is the same layer of rock found in the Ohio River at the Falls of the Ohio State Park.
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