Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel) (1783-1840) [Plans for a fort and monument in Tennessee]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02475.12 Author/Creator: Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel) (1783-1840) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph manuscript signed Date: 1810 Pagination: 1 p. ; 24.5 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Top half of the page depicts the "Plan of the Stone-Fort at the fork of Duck River, in Tennessee." Lower half of the page contains plans for a "Monument Six miles above Nashville on the Cumberland River." Both establishments are marked as "surveyed by 1810" and copied by Rafinesque, a naturalist and philologist.
The "fort" and "monument" were remains from an ancient American Indian culture.
[illustration of a stone fort survey and area surrounding it]
Stone Walls
12 feet high
20 feet wide at the base
8 to 10 on the top.
Plan of the Stone-Fort at the fork of Duck River, in Tennessee
Surveyed by…….1810. Copied by C.S. Rafinesque
[illustration of a land survey along with the area surrounding it]
Survey in 1810 by……..
Copied by C. S. Rafinesque
River Cumberland
Monument
Six miles above
Nashville
On the Cumberland River
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It contains about 7 Acres. It has a Parapet; but no ditch. There is a semicircular platform in the middle on which stands the dwelling house of Mr. Craighead.
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