Hadrosaurus

Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States

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Haddy is a bronze Hadrosaurus foulkii by sculptor John Giannotti at Kings Highway and Lantern Lane in downtown Haddonfield, New Jersey. Dedicated on 18 October 2003, it commemorates the 1858 local find that historian Doug Rauschenberger calls the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton.

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39.89706° N, 75.03437° W

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Haddonfield, New Jersey, put a bronze dinosaur in its downtown to mark an 1858 find that local historian Doug Rauschenberger calls the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton ever found. Hadrosaurus foulkii, nicknamed Haddy, is the work of local sculptor John Giannotti, who was selected to design it in 2002. It was unveiled and dedicated on 18 October 2003, when hadrosaurus.com, the website of the community committee behind the project, reported more than 2,000 people at the ceremony.

According to CBS News Philadelphia in 2025, the bones were unearthed in 1858 on a farm on Maple Avenue in Haddonfield, a site CBS reported has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Hadrosaurus.com names the finder as William Parker Foulke. The bones went to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which in 1868 became the first place in the world where people could see a mounted dinosaur, according to the same report.

Haddy stands at the corner of Kings Highway and Lantern Lane, a pedestrian walkway with a landscaped garden area for the project. Giannotti's 2002 design announcement described a bronze eight feet high and 15 feet long; CBS News Philadelphia gave it in 2025 as 8 feet tall and 18 feet long. The Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust says the project was initiated by the Haddonfield Garden Club, while hadrosaurus.com credits a committee called HATCH, short for Haddonfield Acts To Create Hadrosaurus, with overseeing it.

The discovery site on Maple Avenue is separate from the sculpture. The bronze on Kings Highway is the part of the story that stands in the open in the middle of town.

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Outdoor bronze sculpture in the Lantern Lane garden beside Kings Highway in downtown Haddonfield. The Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust lists it as installed since October 2003, and CBS News Philadelphia reported it standing in August 2025.

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At the corner of Kings Highway and Lantern Lane, a pedestrian walkway in Haddonfield's downtown business district. The 1858 discovery site is separate, on Maple Avenue.

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