Record #:

22957

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

An interesting cannon sits in the Greenville Town Common. Joseph Brickell is said to have used this twelve-pound cannon, made between 1760 and 1770, on his trading vessels during the late eighteenth century. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the cannon was used to mark important events. Children fired it as a prank. Installed on the Greenville Town Common, it was dedicated on October 29, 1976.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , May 1-14 1985, p10-11, il

Subject(s):

Cannon