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Jared Brooks' 1806 Plan for a Canal at the Falls of the Ohio River.
Scarce map of the area around Louisville, Kentucky and the Falls of the Ohio River, illustrating the proposal for a Canal on the south side of the river.
Highly detailed map showing the Falls of the Ohio and the Rapids, illustrating the proposal of Jared Brooks for a Canal on the south side of the Ohio River, from Louisville to Shipping Port.
The map includes 3 diagrams illustrating plans for the Canal.
Jared Brooks
Jared Brooks was a Louisville engineer. His plan of a canal around the Falls, drawn in 1806, was substantially adopted when the canal was made, a quarter of a century later. He was the author of two of the best maps of Louisville, one in 1806 and the other in 1812.
Brooks also recorded the only scientific account we have of the earthquake of 1812, which formed Reelfoot Lake, and changed the face of the country in the southwestern portion of the State. He was for several years editor of the Louisville Gazette, and was noted for his learning upon almost every subject.
He died in 1816, and after his death there were found among his papers crayon likenesses of many of our most eminent pioneers, and drawings of a number of the early buildings of the city. He seems to have contemplated and been at work upon an illustrated history of Louisville, but died before finishing it.
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