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The Montpelier Diamond



2025-01-07 - Washington, D.C. - Photo by Pen.
I was excited to find something from our neck of the woods on display on a recent visit to the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

The placard reads, simply, "Diamond, Cabin Fork Creek, Montpelier, Kentucky." When I searched the internet for more context, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the late great JIM had already covered the subject with some thorough research, in an article posted to Columbia Magazine way back in 2011: JIM: History notes on the Montpelier Diamond.

(Also on display in the Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals is a slice from the meteorite that fell in Edmonton, KY, in 1942. Another slice of the Edmonton Meteorite is on display in the Field Museum in Chicago, IL.)


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