The front gate of a replica of Fort Clatsop, the last encampment of the Lewis Clark Expedition before returning to St. Louis. The fort, built over the course of three weeks in December 1805, was occupied until March of 1806. The fort is located on the Lewis and Clark River, not far from the mouth of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean, and close to the modern city of Astoria, Oregon. The first replica was built in 1955, from a set of drawings in William Clark’s journals. That fort burned down in 2005, and was replaced the following year by a crew of 700 volunteers, who replaced it with a replica truer to the character of the original structure.
A Ten Religious Commandments Plaque on the side of a brick-walled Christian Church in Hamilton, Ohio reads;
1 – You shall have no other gods before ME 2 – You shall not make unto yourself any graven image 3 – You shall not take the name of the LORD your GOD in vain 4 – Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. 5 – Honor your father and your mother 6 – You shall no kill 7 – You shall not commit adultery 8 – you shall not steal 9 – You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor 10 – You should not covet anything that is your neighbor’s.
The engraved seal of the Supreme Court of Ohio, as it appears at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center, in Columbus. The seal is also that of the State of Ohio. It depicts the sun rising over Mount Logan and the Scioto River, as seen from the estate of the Adena Mansion in Chillicothe. Chillicothe is the site of the State’s first capitol, when it was part of the Northwest Territory. The seal also displays a cluster of 17 arrows and next to it a sheaf of wheat of the same shape. The thirteen rays of light coming from the sunrise, represent America’s original 13 colonies.
Adena Mansion is also where the first earthen mound of the Native American Adena culture was found, and thus became the namesake of the culture itself.
