The Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, near Montgomery, New York, is one of three sites of an 1801 exhumation of a mastodon which became "the world's first fully articulated prehistoric skeleton".
[3] The exhumation was led by artist/scientist Charles Willson Peale, owner of the Philadelphia Museum.
[2] The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 2009.
[4] The mastodon skeleton is exhibited at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany, though it was returned to the US for a temporary exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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