Natural Petrolium, or Native Tar Bitumen, from a spring in Harden County [Ky.]

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 90

Additional Source Text:

"16 Miles from Elizabeth Town, 58 [from?] Louisville belonging [to] the donor."

Notes:

Petroleum is a naturally occuring hydrocarbon, so technically not a mineral or a rock (inorganic in composition and origin).