Caleb Atwater's Map of the Portsmouth Earthworks Complex (1820)
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The oldest known map of the earthworks located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers was created by Caleb Atwater and engraved for the American Antiquarian Society, which published the map in 1820.
This file appears in: Mound Park and the Preservation of the Portsmouth Earthworks
Mound Park and the Preservation of the Portsmouth Earthworks
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…