A Specimen of Mineral Bitumen or Asphaltum, from Harden County, on the River Nolin, Kentucky 25 miles from Spring Grove

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 86

Notes:

Bitumen is a naturally occuring hydrocarbon solid, a "chunk" of solid, heavy hyrdrocarbons, so technically not a mineral or a rock (inorganic in composition and origin).A specimen of bitumen from Kentucky is pictured here.

Philadelphia physician Dr. Samuel Bleight laid out the city of Utica, Indiana in 1816.