Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Verendrye Site is an archaeological site in Stanley County, South Dakota, United States, in the city of Fort Pierre. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991.At the time of the designation in 1991, it was stated:Here, in late March 1743, the Verendryes, the first Europeans to explore the northern plains region of the present United States, secreted a lead plate beneath a pile of stones. Sixty-one years before Lewis and Clark first arrived in this area, these French explorers, in search of a Northwest Passage to the Pacific, lay the basis for French sovereignty on the Upper Missouri, seeking to define the bounds of French Louisiana to include the entire Mississippi River drainage."@en }
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- Verendrye_Site abstract "Verendrye Site is an archaeological site in Stanley County, South Dakota, United States, in the city of Fort Pierre. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991.At the time of the designation in 1991, it was stated:Here, in late March 1743, the Verendryes, the first Europeans to explore the northern plains region of the present United States, secreted a lead plate beneath a pile of stones. Sixty-one years before Lewis and Clark first arrived in this area, these French explorers, in search of a Northwest Passage to the Pacific, lay the basis for French sovereignty on the Upper Missouri, seeking to define the bounds of French Louisiana to include the entire Mississippi River drainage.".