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Five specimens of Marble from the Middlebury Quarry, Vermont

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

July 31, 1816

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 80

Additional Source Text:

"No. 1 Marble fit for Chimney places [pieces?]. No. 2 Statuary Marble. No. 3 nearly black when polished. No. 4 suitable for Tomb Stones. No. 5 dove Colored suitable for Tomb Stones."

Notes:

Middlebury, Vt. is at about the midpoint of a geological marble corridor running the length of western Vermont.