A piece of Winchendon’s history has been restored and returned to its proper place in the community. When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in ...
LENOX — Following a one-year, $18,900 restoration, the 1862 replica Union Army cannon returned Saturday morning to Lilac Park. The artillery piece and its carriage were restored by Civil War Cannons, ...
The people who helped put the “Long Tom” cannon in place at Fort Boreman Park as well as county officials who helped secure the Civil War-era siege cannon for the park. The refurbished cannon was ...
COATESVILLE, Pa. — When Jeff Stafford was 8, he was infatuated with “things that go bang.” One day, in his father’s auto body shop, he fashioned a toy cannon from a small piece of pipe and some scrap ...
NEPONSET− We continue our story from July. Recall Joseph W. Merrill came to Neponset from New England in 1856 and a few months later became the postmaster. As postmaster, he knew all the local folks ...
CARTHAGE, Mo. — A new monument to the American Civil War and the hardship it caused in Carthage and Jasper County was dedicated Friday afternoon in Carthage’s Central Park. Dozens of residents and ...
Almost 150 years after bloodshed divided the United States, the stories and memories of the Civil War still attract the citizens of its once war-torn country. While children read about it in text ...
The restored Civil War cannon that was rededicated in Mound Cemetery on Memorial Day looked like this in about 1910, according to Brian Jensen, owner of Jensen Metal Products who submitted the photo ...
DENISON, Iowa — A cannon deployed in the Civil War will be used Saturday to help dedicate the gravesites of several Crawford County citizens with connections to the war. Glen Kelley of Carter Lake ...