July 11, 2025
Tag: guns
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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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November 19, 2023 5 Comments
Postcards showing Civil War people and events, battlefield sites, the weapons they used, and even the paraphernalia and baggage that was carried around or sent by train, seem to be in endless supply. And today, the days between April 1861 and April 1865 still capture the attention of everyone even remotely interested in history.