About George Rogers Clark Home Site
The George Rogers Clark Home Site occupies part of Falls of the Ohio State Park on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River. Revolutionary War officer George Rogers Clark settled at this location in 1803 after years of military and public service, living near the community of Clarksville that he had helped establish. The setting connects his later life with the strategic Ohio River landscape that shaped settlement and travel in the early United States.
The home site also has a direct connection to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. William Clark was recruiting men in the Clarksville area when Meriwether Lewis arrived in October 1803, and the captains gathered here before leaving the area with members of the developing Corps of Discovery. Clark’s original cabin was destroyed in the nineteenth century, and a later cabin erected for interpretation burned in 2021, so the site is now interpreted primarily through the historic landscape, the remaining chimney, and other site features.
Visitors can walk the riverside setting, take in views toward the Falls of the Ohio, and connect George Rogers Clark’s frontier history with the opening phase of the Corps of Discovery. The site also includes interpretive panels, a picnic shelter, and a replica McGee Cabin that helps tell the story of Venus and Ben McGee, who were indentured servants of Clark.
