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Iron Pyrites from Paulings Mine on the Perkiomen Creek

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

February 15, 1808

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 28

Notes:

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…

James Woodhouse (1770-1809) was an American surgeon and chemist.