A draught of the Cherokee Country : on the west side of the Twenty Four Mountains, commonly called Over the Hills

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A draught of the Cherokee Country
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Title:
A draught of the Cherokee Country : on the west side of the Twenty Four Mountains, commonly called Over the Hills
Creator:
Timberlake, Henry, -1765
Name on Item:
taken by Henry Timberlake, when he was in that country, in Mar. 1762
Date:
1765
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Indians of North America--Little Tennessee River Valley (Ga.-Tenn.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Cherokee Indians--Tennessee--Maps--Early works to 1800
Fort Loudoun State Historic Area (Tenn.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Little Tennessee River
Extent:
1 map ; 38 x 23 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
London : Printed for the author ; and sold by J. Ridley ... W. Nicoll ... and C. Henderson
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:65,000]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Oriented wiith north to the left.
Relief shown pictorially.
Covers Fort Loudoun and part of the Little Tennessee River.
Includes a list of the "Names of the principal or headmen of each town, and what number of fighting men they send to war."
In the author's Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake..
Notes (citation):
Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps, 349
Identifier:
06_01_010187
Barcode:
30000003236919