Catalogue description Pennsylvania (now part of the United States of America): Fort Pitt (now the Golden...

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Details of MR 1/518
Reference: MR 1/518
Description:

Pennsylvania (now part of the United States of America): Fort Pitt (now the Golden Triangle, Pittsburgh). Two copies of a plan of the existing fort and surrounding area, showing limehouses and kilns, a stone quarrry and coal pit, the the detailed layout of a neighbouring garden, the ruins of Fort Duquesne and the site of the English fort built in the winter of 1758-1759, the old and new roads to Fort Ligonier, and the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers to form the Ohio River. Reference table to defence works and buildings. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet. Compass rose; east at the top. Surveyed by Lieutenant Elias Meyer, Engineer, 1st Battalion, Royal American Regiment; item (1) copied by William Twiss. Inset: a section on the line ABC; scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120].
Date: 1761
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: WO 78/297
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Dimensions: 139.5 cm x 105.5 cm
Map scale: 1:1200
Physical condition: MS, coloured
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2814

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