KELLEY'S 1814 VERSION

OF SPAFFORD'S 1801 MAP

(with shoreline details by Whittlesey)

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Amos Spafford's 1801 map of Cleveland, completed after he re-surveyed the entire site for the village of Cleveland, evidently does not survive. However, this is a copy of Alfred Kelley's drawing of that map, produced in 1814. It was, reportedly, recorded with the county and first published by Whittlesey, who has added some of his observations about the changes in the shoreline of Lake Erie.

See Chapman, page 12, for details.

CITATIONS TO WHERE THIS MAP IS PUBLISHED

Avery, Elroy McKendree. A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: the Heart of New Connecticut. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co. 1918. Volume I, page 97.

Chapman, Edumund H. Cleveland: Village to Metropolis: a Case Study of Problems of Urban Development in Nineteen-Century America. Cleveland: The Western Reserve Historical Society and the Press of Western Reserve University. 1964. Page 11.

Kennedy, James Harrison. A History of Cleveland and Its Environs. Cleveland: The Imperial Press. 1896. Page 175.

Orth, Samuel P. A History of Cleveland, Ohio. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1910. Note that Orth has no list of illustrations and his indexing for maps is very incomplete. The illustration used here was taken from Cleveland State's copy of Orth.

Whittlesey, Charles. Early History of Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co. 1867. Page 434. This was one of only two maps published in Whittlesey's history.

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