from "Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the results of extensive original surveys and explorations." by Charles Whittlesey, E.G. Squier, and E.H. Davis (1847).
Rufus Putnam
from the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, (1888).
from "On the Trail of the Pioneers" by John T. Faris (1920).
For the Ohio!
Image from "The United States of America, Part 1" by Edwin Earle Sparks (1904).
Map of Ohio by Manasseh Cutler
"A map of the Federal Territory from the western boundary of Pennsylvania to the Scioto River" by Manasseh Cutler (1785). Held by the Library of Congress.
Muskingum Academy
from the Harry Phillip Fischer Collection in the Marietta College Special Collections.
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