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Internal lining of the Driping Cave

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 30, 1817

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 87

Notes:

Dripping Cave was probably near Park City, Ky. Joseph C. Douglas and Marion O. Smith, "Brief Diversions on 'The Great Rush South': Union Soldiers, Camp Hambright, and the Exploration of Dripping and Hundred Dome Caves, Kentucky in Early 1862" (2016) / https://www.slideshare.net/JosephDouglas6/brief-diversions-draft3

The donor may have been John Finney McClenachan (1744-1825), who served in the Chester County (Pa.) militia during the Revolution and later moved to Kentucky.