Hadrosaurus Foulkii the first nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur

A bronze and stone marker in downtown Haddonfield commemorates the site where the skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii was unearthed in 1858. William P. Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield when he heard that twenty years earlier, workers had found gigantic bones in a local marl pit. Foulke spent the rest of the summer directing a crew of hired diggers shin deep in gray slime. Eventually he found the bones of an animal larger than an elephant with structural features of both a lizard and a bird. Foulke had discovered the first nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur -- an event that would rock the scientific world and forever change our view of natural history.

The discovery site was forgotten until it was rediscovered in 1984 by a local Boy Scout.

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