The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was designated as a National Memorial by Executive Order 7523, on December 21, 1935, and is maintained by the National Park Service. The park was established to commemorate: ⁕the Louisiana Purchase, and the subsequent westward movement of American explorers and pioneers; ⁕the first civil government west of the Mississippi River; ⁕the debate over slavery raised by the Dred Scott case. The memorial consists of a 91-acre park along the Mississippi River on the site of the earliest buildings of St. Louis; the Old Courthouse, a former state and federal courthouse that saw the origins of the Dred Scott case; the 45,000 sq ft Museum of Westward Expansion; and most notably, the Gateway Arch, a steel catenary arch that has become the definitive icon of the city. Wikipedia [ - ]

The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of... [ + ]