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Murals

The Weippe Discovery Center property is decorated with hand-painted historical murals, depicting scenes taken from the journal of Lewis & Clark, as they traveled through the region.

mural1"The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River & such principal stream of it, as, by it course and communication with the water of the Pacific Ocean..." - President Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803
mural2"...over the most terrible mountains I ever beheld." - Patrick Gass, September 16, 1805
mural3"The Mountains which we passed to day much worst than yesterday the last excessively bad & Thickly Strowed with falling timber & Pine Spruc fur Hackmatak & Tamerack, Steep & Stoney our men and horses much fatigued...." - William Clark, September 14, 1805
mural4"I walked in front to keep the road and found great dificuelty in keeping it as in maney places the Snow had entirely filled up the track, and obliged me to hunt Several minits for the track." - William Clark, September 16, 1805
mural5"...we found ourselves invelloped in snow from 12 to 15 feet deep even on the south sides of the hills with the fairest exposure to the sun...." - Meriwether Lewis, June 17, 1806
mural6"...a fine morning sent out all the hunters early in different directions to kill something...." - William Clark, September 21, 1805
mural7"...the road was excessively dangerous along this creek being a narrow rockey path generally on the side of steep precipice, from which in many places if ether man or horse were precipitated they would inevitably be dashed in pieces." - Meriwether Lewis, September 19, 1805
mural8"...(we) decended the mountain to a leavel pine Countrey proceeded on through a butifull Countrey for three miles to a Small Plain in which I found maney Indian lodges, at the distance of 1 miles from the lodges I met 3 boys, when they Saw me ran and hid themselves...." - William Clark, September 20, 1805
mural9On September 26, the Corps proceeded five miles downstream from Twisted Hair's fishing island and established Canoe Camp. Here they built five dugout canoes from ponderosa pine.
mural 10"The quamash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom and at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water." - Meriwether Lewis, June 12, 1806
mural11Nez Perce (NEZZ-PURSE) is a French term for "pierced noses."

Contact

204 Wood Street
PO Box 435
Weippe, Idaho 83553
208-435-4058 Voice
208-435-4374 FAX

Staff

Director: Terri Summerfield

Assist. Director: Michelle Berreth

Program Coordinator: Jenni Tissell

Library Aide: Sarah Kinney

Library Aide II: Lane Dawson