Drawing
Plan of the Town of Clarksville
| Hand-drawn plan for the layout of the town of Clarksville, bordering Mayfield Creek and Liberty Creek. Fort Jefferson is shown between the townsite and the Mississippi River. The fort was built in April 1780 by Gen. George Rogers Clark on the east side of the Mississippi River just south of the mouth of the Ohio River, as part of impressive plan of settlement, conceived by Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia, to protect the US claim to its western border and to be a key trading post. It was abandoned in July 1781 after attacks by the Chickasaw, but was resettled after the Jackson Purchase in 1818 and became an important Union post during the Civil War. The location (then part of Virginia, now in Ballard County, western Kentucky), about 1 mile south of Wickliffe, is designated by a historic marker. |
| Image ID: | 6532 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1780 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Clarksville |
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| State: | Kentucky |
| Collection Name: | Draper manuscripts: William Clark papers, 1780-1804 |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | drawings |
| Original Format Number: | Draper MSS M, Vol. 1, page 11 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8 x 6 inches |
| Cities and towns |
| Maps |
| Mississippi River |
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