St. Mary's City Cannon

This cannon was brought from England

by the first settlers March 25, 1634

Mounted on the walls of the fort

at Old St. Mary's

Recovered from the St. Mary's River 1822

Presented to the state in 1840

by Rev. Joseph Carbery

This tablet is placed by

The Peggy ...

The Cannonball

Christmas Raid, December 27, 1862

Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Raiders arrived in Elizabethtown on December 27, 1862, appearing on the brow of the hill that is now the City Cemetery. The main objective of the Christmas Raid was to burn two ...

“The Cannons’ Flashes Lit Up the Terrible Scene”

The Breakthrough Trail

At various intervals along their lines, Confederate defenders constructed gun emplacements, called redans, such as the one in front of you. Each redan would hold as few as one or as many as six cannons. Virtually every square ...

Cannon Made in Mount Holly

Used in Revolutionary War

Erected By

Camp No 71 P.O.S. of A.

Mount Holly, N.J.

1915

Marker is at the intersection of High Street and Union Street, on the right when traveling south on High Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Revolutionary Cannon

This gun, cast in Strasburg in 1758, was sent by Louis XV, King of France, to Canada for the defense of Quebec. Upon the surrender of that place in the following year, the gun fell into the hands of the ...

The Cannon

This Model 1905 three inch field gun

saw service in the Mexican Campaign

against Pancho Villa, and was

originally obtained by a local veterans

organization during the mid-1950s.

In the early 1980s, American Legion

Bicentennial Post 1976, Annandale,

obtained stewardship of the cannon

and initiated a restoration project

that ...

The Cannonball House

(Upper Plaque):

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

(Lower Plaque):

The Cannon Ball House

Farmstead and dwelling built about 1740. Cannonball pierced the west wall during the Battle of Springfield, June 23, 1780.

New Jersey State ...

This Cannon “Independence”

1776 – 1908

This cannon “Independence”

used at the Battle of Long Island,

Aug. 27th, 1776,

was purchased by the Union Hill

Association in 1851 and presented

by the only surviving member,

Chas. E. Suffern, to the Village of

Suffern on April 23rd, 1908.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Glen Ellen Cannon

In early 1905 through the efforts of General Wagner, this Civil War Era cannon was was delivered to Glen Ellen where it was placed in the center of town. It has continuously been recognized as the town marker and as ...

Wells County 1862 Cannon - Civil War

[ Plaque One ]

On April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, resulting in its capitulation the following day. By the time the final action at Palmito Ranch, Texas had concluded, some 1,489 days later ...