Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Significant name | Pike's Stockade | Sanford | |||||
| Architect | Pike's Stockade | Sanford | |||||
| 1805/00/00 | Lt Zebulon Pike treks north to Upper Red Cedar Lake (today's Leech Lake and Cass Lake), records seeing the Turtle River trickling into Cass Lake's north end, then the agreed-upon source of the Mississippi. | Explorer | Itasca State Park, MN | Minnesota | |||
| 1805/09/05 | Zebulon Pike climbs a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River near the confluence of the Wisconsin River, scouting locations for a fort. He found the bluff "level on the top, having a spring in the rear, and commanding a view of the country around." | Explorer | Pikes Peak State Park | Iowa |
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