Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 19, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 90
Notes:
This specimen was cerussite.
Lead was mined near where Perkiomen Creek flows into the Shuylkill River, just outside the northern border of preset-day Valley Forge National Historical Park. The 200- to 300-acre estate of Henry Pawling (d. 1822), known as Walnut Hill, now lies within the park. Brooke Elin Vincent, "Function and Use of a Nineteenth-Century Barn: "Walnut Hill" Estate, Pawling Road, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania" (University of Pennsylvania thesis,1991) / https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1310&context=h…
Philadelphia importer Samuel Wetherill, Jr. (1764-1829) founded a white lead factory in the early 19th century with his father. He and his successors manufactured and sold white lead and other paints, as well as drugs, chemicals, and glass, until 1932.
