By the late 19th century, when Mary Ann Grosh Stoner made her Hexagon quilt, cotton prints were so plentiful and cheap that it became popular to make a “charm” quilt with no repeating fabrics in the blocks. Among Mary Ann’s hexagons, there are only a handful of repeats, which suggests that she might have intended this to be a charm quilt. The fabrics include a variety of print styles and colors from the 1870s and 1880s with a few earlier prints from the 1840s thrown in as well. Strategically placed in one corner is a piece of fabric printed with the date “1776,” a souvenir of the nation’s Centennial celebrations of 1876.