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Earlier Peach Bottom Slate Region Marker
Photographer: Beverly Pfingsten
Taken: June 24, 2007
Caption: Earlier Peach Bottom Slate Region Marker
Additional Description: Peach Bottom Slate, first used 1734, is the oldest in America. The first commercial cut having been made 1785 by workmen who were primarily Welsh. At the London Crystal Palace Exposition, 1850, Peach Bottom Slate was judged best in the world.
Submitted: June 24, 2007, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p3602
File Size: 0.714 Megabytes

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