A picture of the Whitefield Stump, with President Patterson's house in the background. The Whitefield Stump was discovered in a Harlan, Kentucky mine in 1938 and was given to the UK Geology Department by George Whitefield, former manager of Clover Fork Coal Company, in 1960. The stump is "cast" fossil of a lycopod tree that lived about three hundred million years ago
Date
- 1964, January
Creator
- University of Kentucky.
Language
- English
Collection
- University of Kentucky general photographic prints, , | collection guide | more from this collection
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Publisher
- University of Kentucky
