Near Elizabethtown, IL[1]No known record exists of expedition’s travel between Louisville and Fort Massac. Using information from travelers of the period and Cramer’s 1802 river guide, The Navigator, one … Continue reading On or near this date, the expedition passes Tower Rock, a tall rock facing the Ohio River.
The Barge
Courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
Tower Rock
“[O]n the right, is a hill with a remarkable face to the river, of perpendicular rocks of a reddish colour”
—Fortescue Cuming[2]Fortescue Cuming, Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country: Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and a trip through the Mississippi territory, and … Continue readingThey dissolve to a kind of redish clay colord dust . . . . The foot of these rocks are 150 or 200 ft. above the water, and the space between composed of the broken rocks that have fallen from the mountain. The top of the perpindicular wall is not less than 400 ft. above the water in appearance.
—Thomas Rodney[3]1 November 1803. Dwight L. Smith and Ray Swick, ed., A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney’s 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997), … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | No known record exists of expedition’s travel between Louisville and Fort Massac. Using information from travelers of the period and Cramer’s 1802 river guide, The Navigator, one conjecture is that the captains reached Elizabethtown near this date. |
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| ↑2 | Fortescue Cuming, Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country: Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and a trip through the Mississippi territory, and part of West Florida, commenced at Philadelphia in the winter of 1807 . . . (Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear, & Eichbaum, 1810). 249 |
| ↑3 | 1 November 1803. Dwight L. Smith and Ray Swick, ed., A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney’s 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997), 157. |
