War and Transportation

Corinth Crossroads

The Worthington Farm, also known as Clifton, is a component landscape of Monocacy National Battlefield. Located just west of the Thomas Farm and alongside the Monocacy River, the property's patchwork of fields and woodlands represents the agricultural landscape that was present here in 1800s. The Worthington House is the only building dating to the time of the Civil War Battle of Monocacy.

Burnside Bridge played a key role in the Battle of Antietam when 400 Confederate soldiers managed to hold the line for several hours, preventing 12,000 Federals from forcing a crossing of the bridge and seizing the strategic high ground.

Sacagawea is one of the most famous women in American history. She lived at a Hidatsa village near here.

Several members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter at a Clatsop-Nehalem Village near here, boiling ocean water to make salt for the return journey.

In January 1806, a whale washed ashore near NeCus’, a Nehalem village. Everyone in the area was talking about it. William Clark and some of the crew went down to see what the fuss was all about.

Clatsop leader Coboway was friendly and hospitable to the Lewis and Clark Expedition when they camped in Clatsop territory during the winter of 1805–1806.

On November 24, 1805, members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition voted on where to spend the winter. The opinions of Sacagawea (an Indigenous woman) and York (a Black man enslaved by William Clark) were recorded along with those of the other crew members.