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LocalitiesLower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
5th Feb 2024 19:10 UTCKim A. Strange
5th Feb 2024 20:59 UTCMark Heintzelman 🌟 Expert
5th Feb 2024 21:09 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
Hi Kim, first question, what is the matrix? It looks like maybe a limestone or dolostone. These minerals commonly form in pockets in dolostone. If so, check the geology of the area you think this is from (an area known as Gladwyne) by turning on the macrostrat geology layer in the mindat map for the locality. I did this and the area is schist and ultramafic rock - not at all like your matrix. The label seems very specific, but all it really gives is a hill name in the vast state of Pennsylvania! Because the geology doesnt look like your matrix, then it is likely from a different Linden Hill. But assuming it is, if we across the Schulkyll River and go further NE we end up in terrane underlain by the Ledger Dolostone. It has big quarries in it, like the one north of Lafayette Hill.
Searching for "Linden Hill, PA" on the web I found a Linden Way in King of Prussia, and NE of it is a flooded quarry in the Ledger Dolostone again. I know "Linden Way" isn't a hill, but often road names get their inspiration from old topo or historic features - although no hill is marked there with a triangle on open street map. I ended up with some specimens from that quarry from a fellow here in Connecticut who is now close to 80 and lived near it decades ago. Because it was obviously a collectible place way back, it's another possibility.
5th Feb 2024 22:07 UTCKim A. Strange
FYI, I may be attaching too much relevance to the Linden Hill reference - but it is a specific area outside Gladwyn (see https://montco.today/2022/03/linden-hill-gladwyne-5-parcels/). I'm "assuming" the Linden Hill on the specimen label refers to the same Linden Hill Campbell Soup heir estate area. If I'm wrong, then this specimen could be from just about anywhere. I do appreciate your analysis and suggestion to look further north east. If the Gladwyn area doesn't pan out, I guess this specimen may just have to be "locality uncertain" for the time being...
Thanks again.
5th Feb 2024 21:20 UTCWayne Corwin
A photo of the Back would help.
5th Feb 2024 21:44 UTCKim A. Strange
5th Feb 2024 22:35 UTCWayne Corwin
Very Cool specimen!
5th Feb 2024 22:28 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
9th Feb 2024 12:49 UTCJamison K. Brizendine 🌟 Expert
There is a website I commonly use called Historicaerials.com for researching old localities. The Bridgeport and King of Prussia area has had a very long history of stone quarrying so you might have some difficulty.
The "Limestone Quarry" link that Harold provided I believe was called the Dekalb Quarry, according to this brief webpage provided by the King of Prussia Historical Society and is now a reservoir. https://www.kophistory.org/upper-merion-reservoir/
9th Feb 2024 17:29 UTCKim A. Strange
As an aside, assuming the map display orientation in mindat is correct (i.e. north at top), the quarry that Harold first identified and that you offered addition insight into (https://www.mindat.org/loc-250212.html) is located NW of the Linden Hill area that I identified. Assuming I have the right "Linden Hill" that is referenced on the label and assuming the person who prepared the label had the right compass orientation (lots of assuming going on here), I have focused my attention more on the area immediately east of Gladwyn.
Unraveling the possible localities of a specimen is always interesting. As I am on the opposite coast of the US and have only been in Pennsylvania once in my life and then only for a couple of days, I appreciate those who are more familiar with an area than I and are willing to offer their thoughts. Thanks again.
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