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Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site
41.5264° N, -74.2178° E
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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". The exhumation was led by artist/scientist Charles Willson Peale, owner of the Philadelphia Museum. 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, though it was returned to the US for a temporary exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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NPS featured listing announcement
November 6, 2009
National Register listing
October 20, 2009
Mastodon exhumation
1801
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