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Georgia Burr, for Millstones

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

April 24, 1805

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 4

Notes:

See Robert Scott Davis, Jr., "'As Good as the French': The Rise and Decline of Georgia's Buhrstone Industry," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 77, no. 3 (Fall 1993):560-566.

The donor was probably Andew Ellicott (1754-1820), surveyor and mathematician and Peale's fellow member of the American Philosophical Society.