Palmersville's "Wonder Rock"

The real story on the Palmersville “Wonder Rock”.

Thanks to Tracy Fagan Edlin and all who provided Information on this Event. 

As told by Tracy Fagan Edlin  :: “That meteorite was a doorstop at my grandparents house. .John and Zanie Fagan... That meteorite landed on Daddy John farm land!!!. Me and my Sister Stacie played with that thing like it was a bowling ball from the time we were young tots till they passed on. We were like 11 and 15 years of age at the time!!! Hugh Berryman is our only cousin in the Fagan family!!! After they passed ,my Aunt Vannie took the thing to her house...it was used for lots if things...it was really good to clean your shoes off with. Now Hugh took it to got it tested  just a few years back!!!... Me and my sister played with this  thing so much growing up we didn't feel any need for it."..

Taken From The UTM  Web-Site

 A space traveler the size of a volleyball landed in John Fagan's tobacco patch in Palmersville, Tenn., one night in 1908 and eventually become a working member of the family.The 20-pound stone served first as a curiosity as the ''the rock that fell out of the sky'' and was hauled back to the Fagan house, where there was much speculation about its origins, said Hugh Berryman, Fagan's grandson and a Wilson County resident.The Fagans were practical folk, and the rock was eventually put to work as an anvil to crack hickory nuts and as a doormat particularly good for cleaning mud off one's boots.The stone graduated to become a driveway ornament and retired as a door stop before being inherited by Berryman several years ago. Following a hunch, Berryman had the rock tested this summer, and the report came back positive. The 20-pound stone was not of this world, much less of Weakley County. It was, as Berryman had suspected and hoped, a meteorite. More importantly, by the traditions of meteorite designations, its name will include the name of the post office nearest where it landed. ''I'm excited that Palmersville will be on the meteorite list forever and always,'' said Berryman, whose family still owns the farm where the meteorite was found.

 

 

LINK TO UTM WEBSITE ON WONDER ROCK "METEORITE"