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Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site

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NRHP Reference #
  
09000863

Added to NRHP
  
20 October 2009

Area
  
8,340 m²

Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site

Location
  
Rt. 17K, vicinity of Montgomery, New York

The Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, near Montgomery, New York, is the site of an 1801 exhumation of a mastodon which became "the world's first fully articulated prehistoric skeleton". The exhumation was led by artist/scientist Charles Willson Peale.

The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 2009. The listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of November 6, 2009.

The mastodon skeleton is exhibited at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany.

References

Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site Wikipedia