Map of the Portsmouth Earthworks (Group B) -- the Twin Horseshoe Mounds and Earthworks by Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis (1848)

ID: 529 ~ Source: Squier and Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848). ~ Date: 1848

This file appears in: Mound Park and the Preservation of the Portsmouth Earthworks

Map of the Portsmouth Earthworks (Group B) -- the Twin Horseshoe Mounds and Earthworks by Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis (1848)

The central complex of works at Portsmouth is centered around twin horseshoe shaped earthworks, with the eastern shoe being all that remains today.

This file appears in: Mound Park and the Preservation of the Portsmouth Earthworks

Mound Park and the Preservation of the Portsmouth Earthworks

By Andrew Sewell

Portsmouth's Mound Park lays claim to the lone remnant of the central complex of the Portsmouth Earthworks that once spread across the Ohio River over the modern communities of Portsmouth, Ohio and South Portsmouth and South Shore, Kentucky. The…