COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
06078
File Name:
06078-9
Call number:
E826 C714j / 2-SIZE
Map title:
General Map of the Course of the Ohio from its Source to its Junction with the Mississipi
Place of Publication:
[Paris]
Publisher:
[Arthus Bertrand]
Publication date:
[1826]
Map size height:
69.3 cm.
Map size width:
101 cm.
Item description:
fold-out engraved map; plate 2
Geographical description:
Map of the course of the Ohio River from its source to its junction with the Mississippi River and south of the confluence to Fort Jefferson (near present-day Clarksville, Kentucky). Includes Lake Erie and Lake Michigan. Cartographic elements include location of rivers, settlements, condition of land, scales, and topographical details with descriptions of landmarks and soil types.
Source author:
Collot, Georges Henri Victor, 1750-1805
Source title:
A journey in North America, containing a survey of the countries watered by the Mississipi, Ohio, and Missouri ... Atlas
Source place:
Paris : Printed for Arthus Bertrand, bookseller, no 23, Rue Hautefeuille, 1826
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
Collot's maps are some of the earliest of the Ohio River valley and were based on the explorations of Sir Alexander Mackenzie and George Vancouver.George Rogers Clark established Fort Jefferson, or Clarksville, Kentucky, just south of present Wickliffe, a few miles south of the Ohio-Mississippi confluence, to help maintain the Southern Illinois and Indiana forts he had taken for Virginia. Fort Jefferson was short lived. General Victor Collot fought under Rochambeau during the Revolution and later became governor of Guadeloupe. In 1796 he returned to North America to survey the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, probably on an espionage mission to incite settlers to join the French government. His work had been printed before his death in 1805, but was suppressed for political reasons and not sold until 1826.
Normalized date:
1826
General Map of the Course of the Ohio from its Source to its Junction with the Mississipi
