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Ore from Black's Gap

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

April 24, 1805

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 4

Notes:

Black's Gap was a variant name of Greenwood, an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pa.

The donor was probably Andew Ellicott (1754-1820), surveyor and mathematician and Peale's fellow member of the American Philosophical Society.