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This 100 foot high white stone
obelisk memorializes Sgt. Charles Floyd, who
died on the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition.
This historic landmark was registered by the
U.S. government in 1960. Located off Highway
75 near Glenn Avenue, the monument overlooks
a breathtaking view of Missouri River.
The following is an excerpt from the journals of the expedition: "20th
August Monday 1804… I am Dull & heavy been up the greater Part of
last night with Serjt. Floyd, who is as bad as he can be to live…We set
out under a jental breeze from the S.E….We came to make a warm bath for
Sergt. Floyd hoping it would brace him a little, before we get him into his
bath he expired, with a great deel of composure..having Said to me before his
death that he was going away and wish me to write a letter…We buries him
to the top of a high round hill overlooking the river & Countrey for a
great distance situated just below a small river without a name to which we
name & call Floyds river, the Bluffs Sergt. Floyds Bluff…we buried
him with all the honors of War, and fixed a Ceeder post at his head with his
name title and Day of the month & year…we returned to the boat & proceeded
to the Mouth of the little river 30 yd wide & camped a butiful evening"
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