Tag: guns

  • Shot Towers

    Shot Towers

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    Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.

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Edith Romaine
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Henry Shaw was an industrious young man in business and in life. He retired young, traveled throughout Europe, and returned to his home in St. Louis to build a garden like the ones he saw in England. Then he gave it away. People still make their way to Missouri to see Henry’s flowers.

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