Iowa


SERGEANT FLOYD MONUMENT
Sioux City, Iowa
While exploring the Louisiana Purchase with Lewis and Clark, Charles Floyd, a United States explorer in the Lewis and Clark Expedition, took ill and died on August 20, 1804.  A funeral was held and Sgt. Floyd was buried on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River in Sioux City, Iowa. The expedition named the location Floyd's Bluff in his honor.





THIS MEMORIAL MARKS THE SPOT
WHERE SGT. FLOYD DIED