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Cannonball House

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Item No: pdcc00241
Title: Cannonball House
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

http://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2013/04/the-cannonball-house-beyond-preservation-purgatory/


Notes:

Shows the old Swedish farmhouse on the banks of the lower Schuylkill which was hit by a cannonball during the British bombardment during the Revolutionary War. The Cannonball House, as it became known, was demolished in 1996 to make way for a water treatment plant.


Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.4
Creator Name: Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler