Stone Age Battle Axe

WELCH, ELLIS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/23/2011 at 18:50:43

Maquoketa Record, Maquoketa, Iowa, October 18, 1899

Stone Age Battle Axe

Last Thursday, Ezra Webb, one of Hurst’s employees at the Pinhook Lime Works, while working in the quarry found a very fine relic of the stone age-a stone battle axe, made from dark granite and very perfect. It had worked down with the dirt from the top of the bluff. Professor Ellis heard of the find, and the next morning it found a place in the Ellisonian Institute at 118 South Second street in Maquoketa.

J. W. Ellis
 

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