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. : Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 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.
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