A photograph taken in March 2011 of the cannon in Market Square, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The view is looking north.
A brief history of the cannon is given on the history board at the square:
In October 1897 a cannon, obtained by W. B. Meetch through his friend Congressman Olmsted, arrived at the railroad depot. Mr. W. B. Meetch was a local businessman and Dauphin County Prison Warden. The cannon, a condemned government relic, came from Governors Island, New York. It weighs 3500 pounds, is ten and a half feet long with a four and a half inch bore. After a suitable base was fashioned by local men and with the consent of borough council, it was placed in West Park in Market Square.
A photo of the end of the cannon’s barrel shows that it was from Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, with the year 1863, or during the Civil War.
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