Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 16, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 34
Additional Source Text:
The donor was "of S. Carolina."
Notes:
Grand Caverns, formerly known as Weyer's Cave, is located in the central Shenandoah Valley in the town of Grottoes, Va. A limestone cavern, it is America's oldest show cave, in operation since 1806, and is now a National Natural Landmark.
Draperies or curtains are thin, wavy sheets of calcite hanging downward in caves.
Stephen Elliott (1771-1830), a Yale graduate, was a legislator, banker, educator, and botanist of Beaufort, South Carolina. He was the author of A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia, 2 vols. (Charleston, 1821-1824).
