Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site

United States historic place


Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site,
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Peale's 1806 painting, The Exhumation of the Mastodon
41°31′35″N 74°13′4″W / 41.52639°N 74.21778°W / 41.52639; -74.21778
Area	2.06 acres (0.83 ha)^[2]
NRHP reference No.	09000863^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 20, 2009^[1]

The Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, near Montgomery, New York, is one of three sites of an 1801 exhumation of a mastodon which became "the world's first fully articulated prehistoric skeleton".^[3] The exhumation was led by artist/scientist Charles Willson Peale, owner of the Philadelphia Museum.^[2]

The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 2009.^[2]^[1] The listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of November 6, 2009.^[4]

The mastodon skeleton is exhibited at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany, though it was returned to the US for a temporary exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Announcements and actions on properties for the National Register of Historic Places". Weekly Listings. National Park Service. November 6, 2009. Retrieved December 20, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c William E. Kratinger; Katherine Woltz; Evan Galbraith & Joseph Devine (April 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2009. (26 pages)
^ "Weekly Highlight: National Register of Historic Places Official Website--Part of the National Park Service". www.nps.gov. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ "Weekly List Actions". National Park Service.
^ Hans-Dieter, Sues (May 6, 2020). "THE STORY OF CHARLES WILLSON PEALE'S MASSIVE MASTODON". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved June 2, 2021.

External links

Charles Willson Peale

Paintings

Washington at Princeton (1779)
The Artist in His Museum (1822)

Founder

Peale Museum
Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site
Charles Willson Peale House
Moses Williams

Family

James Peale (brother)
Raphaelle Peale (son)
Rembrandt Peale (son)
Rubens Peale (son)
Franklin Peale (son)
Titian Peale (son)
George Escol Sellers (grandson)
Coleman Sellers II (grandson)
Mary Jane Peale (granddaughter)
Charles Coleman Sellers (great-grandson)

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