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The Celeron Plate


The Celeron Plate

Gov. DeWitt Clinton of New York gave AAS this leaden plate buried at the mouth of the Muskingum River in Ohio in 1749 to mark the claims of the French king to the territories of the Ohio Valley.

 

 


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