Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, | |
![]() Peale's 1806 painting, The Exhumation of the Mastodon | |
Location | Rt. 17K, vicinity of Montgomery, New York |
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Coordinates | 41°31′35″N74°13′4″W / 41.52639°N 74.21778°W |
Area | 2.06 acres (0.83 ha) [1] |
NRHP reference No. | 09000863 [2] |
Added to NRHP | October 20, 2009 [2] |
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. [1]
The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 2009. [1] [2] 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]