York (explorer)
Videos
York was an enslaved man who was the only African-American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. A lifelong slave and personal servant of William Clark, York participated in the entir
York statue at Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, Louisville, Kentucky
"Explorers at the Portage", by Robert Scriver, in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretative Center, Great Falls, Montana. Left to right: York with a rifle, dog Seaman, Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea and her infant, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.
Lewis and Clark meeting the Mandan Indians, by Charles Marion Russell, 1897. Left to right, Lewis, Clark, and York. Sacajawea and her child are seen from the back, in the foreground.
York is in the canoe on the right, which is quite different from the Indian canoe on the left. Louis and Clark on the Lower Columbia, by Charles Marion Russell, 1905.
Caroline County, Virginia
Videos
Caroline County is a United States county located in the eastern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The northern boundary of the county borders on the Rappahannock River, notably at the historic to
Caroline County Courthouse (built 1803–1809) in Bowling Green
Seal
Portrait of Queen Caroline, for whom the county was named