Sunday, May 18, 2014

[ 7 ] Wellfleet Cannon




Probably mounted on a privateer from Wellfleet during the War of 1812, this “Nine Pounder” was cast at Henry Foxhall’s foundry in Georgetown, Maryland, in the late 1700s. Historian Edwin N. Rich of Wellfleet designed the reproduction of the original wooden mount.







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