It was the site of the William C. "Stub" Newell farm where the "Cardiff Giant", a famous hoax, was "discovered" on October 16, 1869.
In 1869, Boynton was the first geologist to examine the Cardiff Giant after it was unearthed near Cardiff, New York.
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The Cardiff Giant, for example, attracted such attention from the public and from writers such as Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum that P. T. Barnum made a copy which toured the country with his circus.