Relic
- Object Name:
- Relic
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.09
- Place of Origin:
- Carlton, MN
- Date:
- 1870
- Description:
- Fragment of wood, tied to a piece of paper with thread. Paper inscribed in pencil, "The long stick is a piece taken from / the first Sleeper / laid on the Northern Pacific / R.R. in which a golden / spike was driven". On same paper as 2017.500.10.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- W-0.5 L-2.9 D-0.1 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
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