Monroe County GaArchives News.....A Meteoric Stone June 8 1900
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net September 28, 2003, 8:50 am

The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia

Information Regarding the Fall of an Aerolite in Monroe County

From the Monroe Advertiser

On the 8th of May 1822, a meteoric stone fell near Forsyth. It was about 4 
o’clock in the afternoon when a black cloud appeared south of the city, from 
which two distinct explosions were heard in immediate succession, followed by a 
tremendous rumbling or whizzing noise passing through the air, which lasted 
about four minutes. This uncommon noise was on the same evening accounted for 
by Mr. Sparks and Captain Postian who were informed by some negroes who were 
working in a field one mile south of Forsyth, that they had seen a large stone 
descending through the air, weighing as it was afterward ascertained, 36 
pounds. This stone was in the course of the evening, or very early the next 
morning recovered from the spot where it fell. It had penetrated the earth two 
an a half feet. The outside wore an appearance as if it had been in the 
furnace. It was covered about the thickness of a common knife blade with a 
black substance somewhat like lava that had been melted. On breaking the stone 
it had a strong sulphurous smell, and exhibited a metallic substance resembling 
silver. A fine specimen of this aerolite can be seen in the cabinet of Franklin 
University.

(Transcribed 09/27/03 Lynn Cunningham)

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