Explore Websites about Philadelphia's Treasures

Academy of Natural Sciences
Botanical specimens collected in the Lewis and Clark Herbarium

The American Philosophical Society

• Treasures of the American Philosophical Society
  Journals and drawings of the Expedition
• Charles Willson Peale's Sketches of Lewis and Clark Specimens
  at the American Philosophical Society
• American Philosophical Society
  on the Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia
• Library Hall of the APS
  on the Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia
  

The Athenaem

• The Athenaem
  home of Lewis's telescope (not yet shown on this site)
• Athenaeum
  on the Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
location of "Memorandum of Specimens and Antiques," Charles Willson Peale's list of Lewis and Clark accessions

Library Company of Philadelphia
has Benjamin Rush's History of Louisiana by Antoine Le Page Du Pratz with an inscription by Meriwether Lewis, who carried it on the Expedition

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

• St. Peter's Episcopal Church
  graveyard contains the graves of Charles Willson Peale and Nicholas Biddle and a row of osage orange trees grown from seeds or cuttings sent by Lewis to Bernard McMahon.
• St. Peter's Church
  on the Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia

Second Bank of the United States

• Second Bank of the United States
  where the portraits of Lewis and Clark by Charles Willson Peale are displayed
• Second Bank
  on the Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia

Andalusia
the home of Nicholas Biddle

Stenton
the home built in 1728 by James Logan, who had been designated by William Penn to execute the concepts envisioned for Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; Lewis visited the Logan family frequently in 1803.

Other Places of Historic Interest

The home of Caspar Wistar

Independence National Historic Park

• Independence National Historical Park
• Independence Hall on the Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia.

Bartram's Garden

• Historic Bartram's Garden
  the oldest botanical garden in America. William Bartram, too old to go on the Expedition, probably received plants and seeds from the explorers.
• Bartram's Garden
  on the Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial
located inside the Franklin Institute

The National Constitution Center

Places of Interest in the Eastern United States

Home of Andrew Ellicott
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where a historical marker has been erected.

Harper's Ferry National Historical Park
This section of the site describes Lewis's work there in 1803.

Virginia Military Institute
Lewis and Clark's air rifle is pictured and explained.

The Smithsonian Institution
has William Clark's compass.