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 | |||
| 1807/03/03 | Gov Joaquin del Real Alencaster seizes Zebulon Pike's papers and questions his unauthorized entry into New Spain. Pike claims he was lost, and Alencaster - seeing the matter as military and diplomatic - orders him sent to San Felipe el Real de Chihuahua. | Prisoner | Palace of the Governors | Santa Fe, NM | |||
| 1807/03/04 | As Lt Zebulon Pike and his men are escorted south, following the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, where they spend a night in the priest's quarters (lost) at the village of La Bajada. | Prisoner | Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic District at La Bajada | La Bajada Escarpment |
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