A female elephant, the first ever seen in North America, toured the East Coast from Boston to Charleston between 1796 and 1818 and was exhibited in city marketplaces and rural tavern yards such as Scholl's Tavern in Clarksburg, previously called Dowden's Ordinary, where Benjamin H. Latrobe stayed on October 11, 1811. In his sketchbook, Latrobe recorded that she was ten years old, 8 feet 6 inches high, that her broken tusks were growing again, that she ate 2 bushels of corn on the cob a day, cracked a whip, and could draw a cork from a bottle with her finger, empty it into her trunk, and then pour or blow it into her mouth. Capt. Jacob Crowninshield of Massachusetts bought the elephant in India for $450.00, brought her to the United States, and later sold her to Mr. Owen of New York for $10,000. People paid 25 to 50 cents to see her, and her last recorded exhibition was in York, Pennsylvania, on July 25, 1818.