Moseley’s museum at Sandusky High School was first opened on after he received permission from the school board to use space in the old Sandusky High School (now better known as Adams Jr. One report indicates that all of the artifacts in his Natural History Museum (except the concretion) were taken to BGSU with him when he began working there and that over time they deteriorated and were eventually thrown out by the university. After teaching science at Sandusky High, he was recruited to BGSU, where he established the Natural Science Department. PROFESSOR MOSELEY – Moseley himself is not well remembered today. He intends to take up this subject for discussion at a later public reception at the museum when 11 of the students in charge will be prepared to tell the entire story of concretional formations. Moseley will request that no questions be asked about concretions and their formation. While these will be on display Sunday, Prof. Many smaller concretions are exhibited inside the museum. Moseley, although not quite as large as some others he has found in the shale banks along the Huron river between Milan and Monroeville. At present it is on a wagon but is later to be set up in the park on a concrete base, it is the best formed concretion ever by Prof. This big specimen, which was found 12 feet below the surface, was presented to the museum by J. recently unearthed at the Hinde Dauch property on the west end, will be on display in Washington park, just in front of the entrance to the museum. The high school museum will be opened to the public, Sunday afternoon and those persons who visit there will be shown about the museum by high school instructors and students. The FebruSandusky Star-Journal heralded this event – MUSEUM OPEN SUNDAY Huge Concretion On Exhibition In Front of Entrance to High School Building. It was then placed on a concrete base where it stood until last December (1990). The dray finally moved the concretion to Washington Park near the old high school. Undaunted, Moseley had it hauled to Ed Hinkey’s blacksmith’s shop and an iron band was fastened around it, pulling it back together. When they came back the next morning, the stone was split down the middle. The men unhitched the horses and went home, leaving the stone on the dray. The dray proceeded up the street until it reached the middle of the next block, when the 5 o’clock whistle blew. Then from the railroad car it was lifted onto a so-called stone wagon, a low flat bottomed dray drawn by horses (which was owned by Edward Feick Sr.). Rail tracks ran near the construction site and a wrecking train with a crane was brought in to lift the specimen from the pit onto a flat car. He was astounded at the size and began making arrangements to have it transported downtown. The Professor, thinking that this was something that he might use in his Natural History museum, came with a small hand bag to carry it home. foot diameter ball on a pedestal in one of the parks with an appropriately inscribed base.
Several city officials proposed that it would be a good idea to set this 4-ft. But Professor Moseley, a prominent scientist and high school teacher in Sandusky, said that it was a concretion, formed in shale and transported many miles by the glacier to where it was found. Many thought the object had fallen from the sky, and some even remembered that some time before, a meteor had been seen in that location falling to the earth and that a boom like a cannon had been heard. This article from the Sandusky Register of tells how the ball was found embedded in clay about 12 feet underground while workmen were excavating for the boiler room of the new Hinde and Dauch plant at the foot of Jefferson St. This archeological treasure has an interesting history.
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