Webster County Courthouse

Historical marker location:

701 Central Avenue, Fort Dodge, Iowa

( Marker is on Central Avenue just east of South 7th Street, on the right when traveling east.)

National Register of Historic Places.

The famous explorers Lewis and Clark passed through Iowa in 1804 on their journey to the Pacific Ocean, but they didn't actually set foot on Iowa soil. The expedition traveled along the western border of Iowa, which was then part of the Missouri Territory.