Robeson County NcArchives News.....Hamilton McMillan's Meteorite March 1896
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The Morning Star, Wilmington, NC-Th 09/17/1896 March 1896
Red Springs Citizen:
 
We were shown by Mr. Hamilton McMillan, of this town, a piece of brown looking 
rock, being a fragment from a meteorite which fell in this neighborhood about 
thirty years ago.  The rock is apparently charged with Sulphur ore, and we would 
as soon believe it came from below as from above.  Meteorites are rare and a 
portion of this heavenly visitor will probably be sent to the museum at Raleigh.  
There is a gentleman in this vicinity who saw a meteor fall in this section in 
1866, and he described the report of the explosion as more deafening than any 
discharge of artillery during the late war.  This is probably the date of the 
arrival of the meteorite.  The weight of one piece is about 500 pounds, and is 
far greater than one would suppose from its size.


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