Rock Fragment
- Object Name:
- Rock Fragment
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.05
- Place of Origin:
- Somerville, MA
- Description:
- Small rock fragment, tied to paper card with thread. Gray and pink granitic rock. Card inscribed in ink, "From Old Powder House / Somerville, Mass. - Built in 1703-4 / used as powder house in 1775."
- Material:
- Stone
- Dimensions:
- H-0.3 W-0.75 L-1.2 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Souvenirs, Rocks, Powder magazines, American Revolution, Revolutionary War
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