Lewis & Dawley Map the Location of Horsehead Bottom, near modern-day Portsmouth, Ohio.

ID: 315 ~ Source: Richard G. Lewis and Walter M. Dawley, "A Map of the Indian Towns, Villages, Camps and Trails in the Virginia Military District and South-Western Ohio" (Chillicothe, Ohio: 1902), Columbus Metropolitan Library Collection. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

This file appears in: Horsehead Bottom & the Origins of Dunmore's War: Major Frontier War Triggered by Looting of “Thirty Horse Loads of Skins" and Killing of Shawnee Indians

The earliest known map of the location of an Indian village known as Horsehead Bottom comes from the cartography of Richard G. Lewis and Walter M. Dawley, which was published in 1902. Their source of information is unknown.

This file appears in: Horsehead Bottom & the Origins of Dunmore's War: Major Frontier War Triggered by Looting of “Thirty Horse Loads of Skins" and Killing of Shawnee Indians

Horsehead Bottom & the Origins of Dunmore's War: Major Frontier War Triggered by Looting of “Thirty Horse Loads of Skins" and Killing of Shawnee Indians

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Explore the obscure and forgotten origins of Dunmore's War of 1774, which began with an attack on a long-forgotten Shawnee Indian Village known as Horsehead Bottom, located just north of modern-day…