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<h1>Antique Weathervanes & Weather Vanes</h1>
<p>- America's first documented weather vane maker, <strong>Deacon Shem Drowne</strong>,
created the famous grasshopper weathervane atop Boston's Faneuil Hall (1742),
as well as the banner for Boston's Old North Church (1740), the rooster now
on First Church in Cambridge (orig. 1721), and the large copper Indian for Boston's
Province House (1716). Thomas Jefferson attached the weather vane on Monticello
to a pointer in the ceiling of the room directly below, so he could read the
direction of the wind from inside his home. George Washington commemorated the
end of the Revolutionary War by commissioning a "Dove of Peace" weathervane
from <strong>Joseph Rakestraw</strong> in 1787, for his estate at Mount Vernon.</p>
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