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Title
Cannon (New Hope, PA)
Contributor
Caroline Scott
Type
Site
Identifier
2449
Date Issued
1907-07-05
Extent
0m x 0.2286m x 0m
Medium
Historical Monument Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=20099
Spatial Coverage
current,40.36325611092491,-74.95133174880681;
Europeana
Country
United States
Europeana Data Provider
Cannon (New Hope, PA)
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Cannon_(New_Hope,_PA)
Monument Type
Memorial gun
Erected by
New Hope Historical Society
Funded by
New Hope Historical Society.
Inscription
This nine inch Dahlgren smoothbore gun was placed here to mark the colonial approach to town from the ferry landing and was dedicated on July 5, 1907. The gun is on loan to the Borough of New Hope from the US Navy. It was cast in 1855 at the West Point foundry and installed on the USS Minnesota where it saw action at the Battle of Hampton Roads between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) on March 9, 1862. Years later it was installed on the USS Richmond which saw action in Admiral Farragut's fleet. It was fired 108 times as of September 1888.
State
Pennsylvania
County
Bucks
Affiliation
Union
Town
New Hope
Location Type
City