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1805 Harris City Map or Plan of Marietta, Ohio
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Title
1805 (undated) 6 x 4 in (15.24 x 10.16 cm) 1 : 21100
Description
Marietta was founded in 1788 by Rufus Putnam, one of the founders of The Ohio Company, which was created to facilitate the settlement of the modern day state of Ohio through the sale of land. According to Harris
Marietta is a place of much business ; and is rapidly increasing in population, wealth, and elegance. Ship-building is already carried on to a considerate extent. A spirit of industry and enterprize prevails. Add to all, the remarkable healthiness of the place, the benefit it receives from the growing settlements upon the Muskingum, and the extensive navigation of that river ; and it is easy to foresee that it will maintain a character as the most respectable and thriving town in the state
This map was published by Thaddeus Mason Harris in his book The Journal of a Tour into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains... in 1805.
Cartographer
Thaddeus Mason Harris (July 7, 1768 - April 3, 1842) was a Harvard librarian, Unitarian minister and author. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After his father’s death while fighting on the colonial side in the American Revolutionary War, Harris was sent to live on a farm in Sterling, Massachusetts. Harris studied at Harvard University and graduated in 1787. Following his graduation, Harris spent a year as a school teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts, after which he was offered an appointment as secretary to George Washington. Unfortunately he contracted small-pox, and his lengthly recovery prevented him from taking the post. In 1791, Harris became the librarian at Harvard and was appointed as the minister of the First Unitarian Church on Meeting House Hill in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1793. In 1806, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was also a founding member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1812. He served as corresponding secretary for the Antiquarian Society from 1812-1831, and as secretary of foreign correspondence from 1831-1832. More by this mapmaker...