Landing After Hours: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and the First Expedition across the Missouri Ozarks

Name: Landing After Hours: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and the First Expedition across the Missouri Ozarks
Start: 2025-12-03T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-03T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Jefferson Landing State Historic Site

Schedule

Wed Dec 03 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Jefferson Landing State Historic Site | Jefferson City, MO

The Missouri State Museum's "Landing After Hours" program, is held the first Wednesday of each month at the Jefferson Landing State Historic Site,100 Jefferson Street. Join us in-person or via Facebook Live.
Doors open at 6:30 and the program starts at 7 p.m. Convenient parking is available in the lot next to the Lohman Building (100 Jefferson St.).
Join us in December for "Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and the First Expedition across the Missouri Ozarks"
In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his partner set out to explore the Ozarks. This geologist and cartographer, kept a detailed journal of observations of plants and forests, limestone cliffs, prairies and oak savannahs that define this unique region. The publication of his notes and observations continue to inform historians and natural resource managers today. Join Clinton Flowers, Interpretive Aide at the Missouri State Museum, for this overview the expedition, its accomplishments and the legacies of this pioneering explorer.
This program is free and open to the public, no reservations are required. For more information please call 573-751-4127.

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Image: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft courtesy of The Popular Science Monthly, May 1890, frontispiece.