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| | The Farmers' Museum - Do You Believe in Giants? The Great Cardiff Giant Hoax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | On October 16, 1869, workmen digging a well in Cardiff, New York, unearthed a giant, fossilized man. They ran to alert the owner of the farm, William C. "Stub" Newell, thinking that they had discovered the remains of an ancient race. |
 | | On December 10, 1869, George Hull, a cigar manufacturer from Binghamton, New York, admitted that the Cardiff Giant was a giant hoax. |
 | | The statue was shipped by railroad to Union, New York in a box labeled "finished marble" and carted by wagon to Cardiff, where Hull had friends and relatives. |
| www.farmersmuseum.org /exhibitions/cardiff.htm (434 words) |
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