Map of the Red River in Louisiana
King's Map of the Red River in Louisiana (1806) |
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| Date: | 1806 |
| Author: | Nicholas King |
| Dwnld: | Full Size (5.09mb) |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
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This map isn't part of any series, but we have other maps of Louisiana that you might want to check out.
Map of the Red River, as drawn from sources gathered during the Freeman-Custis Expedition of 1806.
An interesting footnote to the region. There existed from the 1200AD until the 1830s a permanent, unnavigable log-jam on the Red River that came to be known as the Great Raft which extended, at one point, for 165 miles (250 km). A man named Henry Miller Shreve (for whom the town of Shreveport was named) made it more-or-less a life's work to clear it out.
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