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Tavern Cave
Tavern
Cave
, also known as the
Taverne-A Cave
, is a historic
archaeological site
located near
St
.
Albans
,
Franklin County, Missouri
.
Meriwether Lewis
and
William Clark
visited Tavern Cave on
May 23
, 1804
at the beginning
of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition
.
The cave
includes a
petroglyph
of either a canoe or a historic
flat boat
and several
19th century
era
inscriptions
.
It was
listed
on the
National Register of Historic Places
in
1970
.