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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: October 28, 2007
Caption: Rodman guns
Additional Description: These 15-inch Rodman guns were left in place when the fort was abandoned in 1878. They lay forgotten and escaped the scrap drives of World War II. In the 1980s the Park Service cleaned up the site and began remounting the guns for display. Of some 322 produced from 1863 to 1871, only 25 exist today. The two here at Fort Foote were produced by the Cyrus Alger Company of Boston, Mass. in 1863-4.
Submitted: December 12, 2007, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p11829
File Size: 1.761 Megabytes

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