Circleville NY is 19 miles directly west of Newburgh.
P.S., the NY State Museum is home to the Cohoes mastodont, excavated in 1866 and not very complete (perhaps about 70 percent complete). Cohoes is a small industrial city about 10 miles north of Albany. The excavation site at Harmony Mills was a deep pothole or sinkhole near the swiftly-flowing Mohawk River. This was one of the earliest mastodont digs. (State Museum prefers "mastodont," so please don't flame me about spelling.)
David
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Hello--
How far is Circleville from Newburgh? That was the site of what I
have read was the first discovery of a mastadon, in about 1800. The
painter, scientific researcher and museologist Charles Willson Peale was so
intrigued that he went to the site, bought the land, and eventually made
the mysterious critter (they weren't named until a few years later) the
centerpiece of his museum in Philadelphia. Take a look at :
(http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/cwpeale/p-cwpeale8.htm) The Disinterment of the
Mastadon of ca. 1806, and also :
(http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/cwpeale/p-cwpeale9.htm) The Artist in His Museum,
1822, in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Anyway, you might try contacting the above institution, as you may
well be directed to a researcher or maybe a fan of mastadons.
(BTW--Supposedly President Jefferson sponsored the Lewis and Clark
expedition in part because he couldn't believe that God would allow any of
his creatures to become extinct, the contemporary scientific explanation
for why there weren't any more mastadons. L&C were told to keep a sharp
out for any of these creatures. They didn't find any.)
Adrienne DeAngelis
>Circleville is in the Town of Wallkill, Orange County, on the west side of
>the Hudson River. Another mastodon was dug up in 1952 at Harriman, also
>in Orange County about 20 miles s.e of Circleville and now housed at
>Museum Village in Monroe.
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