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April 2004
First Day of Issue of the Lewis and Clark Stamp

The First Day of Issue of the Lewis and Clark Stamp will be held on May 14, 2004 near Orofino. The ceremony will unveil the three new U.S. Postal Service stamps commemorating the Bicentennial at the Bureau of Land management’s Pink House Recreation Site. The site is approximately three miles west of Orofino on Highway 12 and about two miles down river from Canoe Camp where the Lewis and Clark expedition built their dugouts to continue their journey to the Pacific Ocean. The Canoe Camp site, a part of the Nez Perce National Historical Park, includes an interpretive trail, wayside exhibits, picnic benches and a full-size reproduction of a canoe like those built for the expedition.

The Orofino ceremony will be the closest First Day Issue observance for many miles from Idaho. The Montana ceremony will be in Great Falls, and the Washington and Oregon ceremonies will be at the mouth of the Columbia.

March 2004
United States Postal Service to Unveil Lewis-Clark Postage Stamp

Orofino has added another exciting observance of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Celebration to their list of activities planned for the Upper Clearwater Area during the next couple of years. Orofino has been chosen as the Idaho community to unveil the new Lewis-Clark Postal Stamp. Plans are to host this event on Friday, May 14 at Canoe Camp Park along the Clearwater River, just east of Orofino on Highway 12.

This location is entirely appropriate as this is the site chosen by Captain Clark to construct the dugout canoes to finish the expedition’s journey to the Pacific Ocean. It was at this site that the men fell five large ponderosa pines to be made into canoes and thus established Canoe Camp. Joseph Whitehouse wrote, “we went about helving our axes and git in readiness to begin the canoes.” However, the task seemed formidable and the time was short, a decision was made and Sgt. Patrick Gass wrote in his journal, “we have adopted the Indian method of burning out the canoes.”

February 2003
Corp 2 coming to Kamiah, Idaho

An historical exhibit, put together by the Missouri History Museum, put in motion the official observance of the commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition the first of January. The exhibit will follow the trail of Lewis and Clark throughout 2004, 2005 and 2006 stopping throughout the trip enabling interested persons to view the artifacts collected by the museum.

Among the items that will be on display are Captain William Clark’s elk skin field journal and rifle, a letter of credit President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Meriwether Lewis, a brass and wood telescope Lewis took on the trip, maps, a woodpecker specimen still intact and colorful, preserved during their stay in Idaho. This is the only animal specimen, one in numerous specimens preserved by Lewis that remains intact today.

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