Explorer Meriwether Lewis died under mysterious circumstances at Grinder's Stand along the Natchez Trace in 1809. A monument and gravesite mark the place, while debate over whether his death was suicide or murder has persisted for generations.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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