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English: This is a high-res .jpg file (from The Tennessee State Library and Archives' Tennessee Virtual Archive) of the map of Kentucky's Mammoth Cave that was drawn from memory in 1842 by Stephen Bishop, an enslaved man who worked as a guide at the Cave. It was then published in 1845 by Morton & Griswold in Alexander Clark Bullitt's "Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, During the Year 1844"
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Source "Map of the explored parts of the Mammoth Cave of KY. (1845)," Bishop, Stephen, 1845, TSLA Map Collection, 42831, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee Virtual Archive, https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll23/id/9099, accessed 2022-03-22.
Author Stephen Bishop

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Map of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky - drawn by Stephen Bishop in 1842, published in 1845 in "Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, During the Year 1844"

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