Fort on the first hill in Dorc̃ester. Fort on the second hill in Dorc̃ester.
Scale 1:480; 40 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. One of a series of 5 drawings, in the same hand, of fortifications around Boston after rebuilding by American forces. Includes a profile of each fort. On verso, in a different hand: W. H. Spooner, No. 5. Vault AACR2
- Date
- 1776
- Place
- Boston
- Scale
- 1:480
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 5,435 × 3,757 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Fort on the first hill in Dorc̃ester. Fort on the second hill in Dorc̃ester." (1776). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_on_the_first_hill_in_Dorc%CC%83ester._Fort_on_the_second_hill_in_Dorc%CC%83ester._LOC_gm71002198.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 12560.
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