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Where are these Cannon located?
« on: August 09, 2007, 07:02:28 AM »
       We borrowed Lance's fun contest idea for this thread.  These are just a few of the cannon Mike and I spotted on our Research Trip through New York State and New England this summer. 

LOCATE THESE CANNON!  Please post your results.  Mike and I will follow-up and give credit where credit is due and correctly locate all by Friday evening.  Hints are provided on the tough ones.  Good luck!! :) :)    You fellows who have a copy of the National List of Surviving Civil War Cannon will be helped on only three.  Google it or Yahooooooo it for some help.  Good Luck!!


Name the Fort in the "Empire State" where this Long 12 Pdr. is located.  Name the lake too.






Name the Fort where this 6 Pdr. is located.  Can you name the building pictured?  HINT:  Mike and I could see the tops of Toronto, Canada skyscrapers from here.





A Union Captain of Artillery at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 has long been associated with an American sport.  This sport and a stone giant made a small town famous.  This town is on a lake. The 1861 8" Seige Mortar pictured is on a rock in that lake.  Name the Sport, the Town and the Lake.





Name the location of this 18th Century 6 Pdr.





Name the only masonry fort in the country to have a 15" Rodman Gun so dismounted.





Name the New England town where this naval gun is located.  A famous UFO incident occurred here on September 3, 1965.  If you can name the park where this gun and the pond are located, you are a Cannon Hunter Extraordinaire!!  It took Mike and I more than a hour to find this one, AND WE HAD THE NAME OF THE PARK!!!





Have fun with these.  This is all for amusement.  Incidently, Mike and I met INTOODEEP at the Mansfield, Ohio  Artillery Show.  He is a really nice guy and can take a good natured joke too, which is good.

Good Luck to you all,

Tracy and Mike

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2007, 08:09:04 AM »
1. Ft Wiliam Henry on Lake George

2. Old Fort Niagra, The French Castle

3. baseball, Cooperstown, Ostego Lake and council rock

4. West Point MA

5.  Ft. McHenry

6. Exeter NH , Gilman park


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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2007, 08:44:29 AM »
     An excellent effort by the gentleman who used to live here.






You guys STILL have an opportunity to be First with ALL SIX named correctly.  Because DD did so well, we can't give hints based on his answers; this would not be fair to him.

Good luck!

Mike and Tracy
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It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2007, 09:23:52 AM »
Ouch, :o Looks like I've been Battin' at the bees nest one time to many.... Now, they are after me, my little dog & my hamster too... ;D

Looks like I may have a challenge when I get home from work.






 
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2007, 10:27:58 AM »
Well one off the answer sets could have another set of answers leading from the same clue, but my answer is a good swing at at.

Two of the others are unresearched guesses based knowledge of similar facts that might not be correct for the particular question.

But I'll leave that for others to figure out.

They put that City Hall sign up after I moved to VA.

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2007, 03:06:06 PM »
WELL, looks like i need to do two things............ dig out the "old books" and rush to the pet store and get a hamster! I didn't know INTOODEEP had back up :)...................... MIKE and TRACY great pics, i feel like i went from playing putt putt golf to being thrown into The Masters!
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2007, 04:09:28 PM »
Well, here goes nothin'..... ;D I guess I need to give credit to DD for some of his answers.

1. Ft. William Henry, Lake George
2. Ft. Niagara, "The Castle"
3. Baseball, Cooperstown NY, Lake Otsego
4. Ft. Ticonderoga
5. Ft. Washington
6. Exeter NH, Gilman Park

Hopefully they are right.

If they are I think one of those 1/6 scale 100 Pdr. Parrotts would look good in my living room as a prize winner......  :D :D





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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2007, 04:11:55 PM »
TRACY and MIKE, to save me from typing, everything that Double D wrote, except number 1........... change that to Fort TICONDEROGA and LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2007, 04:17:08 PM »
On a side note. The mortar in Cooperstown is listed as a 10" in the registry. It's hard to tell from the photo but, is it an 8"?  It kinda looks like it is.
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2007, 04:44:42 PM »
     DD,  We are pretty sure which two were the guesses, two of the others were very difficult, so we say honestly, Great Effort!   4 for 6 ain't bad.  Lets face it, none of us has ever seen any of these guns.  We went through Cut Bank on our way back from Whidby Island in Washington State in a fog of forest fire smoke.  Kalispell, MT was much worse!  Looks like great country around Cut Bank.  Big Sky Country for sure.   :) :)

     Intoodeep,  You are tied with DD which is great and another Great Effort!  Isn't it odd that the same two were off the mark?  Weird.  To tell you now would give away the game so we must wait a bit.  4 for 6  You are right about the 10 inch bore size; more proof we are not perfect!!!  My excuse is the water looked cold so I decided not to swim over there and I relied on my memory of the list details.  Prizes, prizes, did someone mention prizes? Fun, just fun; that's all we promised. ;) ;)

     Lance,  3 for 6 is not too shabby either!  I almost asked you a question that would have handed one to everyone holding back their posting.  Incidentally, it takes some courage to sign-up for ANY contest.  I broke my ankle on my first parachute jump.  After that decision to jump out of a perfectly good plane, all other risk taking was put clearly into perspective.  Good Effort, Lance!

Thanks guys!  Come on you research specialists, your time has come.  Take a chance.

Tracy and Mike
     
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It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2007, 05:08:43 PM »
Oh, Bugger... Then change #4 to Mt. Defiance (should read the question alittle better) and I'll work on #5.
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2007, 05:19:36 PM »
Tracy and Mike, i did see the ferry in pic one, having spent the day with you guys shooting cannons and mortars, well i know Tracy likes a good joke. minnie ha ha,i just got to thinking it was a trick. but i would have lost anyway. like i wrote in my first post, playing with or in THE MASTERS.......... but,so what does third place get? maybe one of your Brooke guns?
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2007, 05:34:07 PM »
1 ft Ticonderoga lake Champlain,2 old fort Niagra, the castle. 3base ball, cooperstown, ostego lake council rock. 4 mt. Defience. 5 ft McHenry. 6 Exeter NH, Gilman park    thought i'd try again....................or maybe, 1 should be ft Ticonderoga and lake George, yeah let's try that.
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2007, 05:35:49 PM »
 O.k. I'm  gonna ride on d.d.'s and intodeeps shirt tails, I agree with intodeep and say # 4 is also Mt.Defiance and # 5 is Fort Pickens
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2007, 05:42:59 PM »
O.k. thanks for typing all that out Lance, my answer is the same as Lance's except #5 I say Fort Pickens  and #1 Fort William Henry,Lake George
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2007, 05:49:41 PM »
 
1. Ft Wiliam Henry on Lake George

2. Old Fort Niagra, The French Castle

3. baseball, Cooperstown, Ostego Lake and council rock

4. Mt. Defiance, near Ft Ticondaroga

5. Fort Knox, Prospect, Maine.

6. Exeter NH , Gilman park
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #16 on: August 09, 2007, 05:50:48 PM »
hey guys, you know what we are doing wrong? we don't have partners........... after all "we" are up against TRACY and MIKE of SEACOASTARTILLERY. think about it..............
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #17 on: August 09, 2007, 05:57:44 PM »
I'm sorry you night owls will have to play on with out me. I'm beat for the day, good luck in the hunt until we meet again.  Tracy (m223)
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2007, 08:19:50 PM »
     Intoodeep,  let us just say that if we were in Vegas, we would not bet against you.  We would probably rate #5 as the hardest, so don't feel bad.

     Lance,   we are going to have to have a serious talk with you.  The Brooke eh?  Maybe you could become part of our traveling demonstration team?  We need a person with lots of faith and courage to hold two pie plates out at arms length at 200 yards. :o :o  We are curing the flier problem, so the Brooke should do about 3 inches for five shots at 200!!  We are pretty excited; you probably would be too with that job assignment!   Lance you are now 4 for 6; nice going.

     m223,   I baked my brains out in July of 2002 at Fort Pickens which guarded Pensacola, Florida during the war making an engineering drawing of the 15" Rodman on the Northwest Bastion.  It took 7 hours just to get the upper carriage and half of the chassis!  The tube was mounted then and it is today, but the fort is not open last we heard, in January, due to hurricane damage.
Read which states we visited at the top of this thread.  That should help you.  5 of 6 is pretty darn good!

     DD, We can't say anything right now, but we will cut this off and post the answers at a time probably more convenient for you.  How about 6 PM, your time?  The rest of you guys start counting time zones from Durban, SA. He's ahead of us, remember.

     Goodnight Lance; Goodnight m223.

Tracy and Mike

     
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From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2007, 04:38:25 AM »
#5 is still alive.... Guess, I'll toss in the towel for now....  ???

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2007, 06:00:07 AM »
     Congratulations DD!   If we knew what a "Kewpie Doll" looked like we would go out, hunt one down, bag it, box it and ship it to you!  You are truly a Cannon Builder/Hunter Extraordinaire.  We are pretty sure that all the participants would like to know what method you used to solve that pesky, no hints given, #5.  Mike and I are curious about your answer to #2 also.  Did our hint about seeing the tops of skycrapers in Toronto, Canada help or had you seen the "French Castle"  before?  Thanks for joining us. :) ;)

     Intoodeep, you have definitely shown that you are a class-act by not coming in at the last second by saying "Me too, me too; I knew that one." ;)  Thank you to everyone who joined in. Maybe Lance will challenge us next time with further cannon photos?

Regards,

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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2007, 06:37:27 AM »


It's my job--analysis,  Google is my freind.

1. Google Minnie Ha Ha, find she sails on Lake George.  Google Lake George find Ft William Henry with lake in back ground similar to posted picture

2. WAG, Toronto Google Ft Niagra---there was the French Castle

3.  Knew Abner Doubledays role at Ft Sumpter, Google Doubleday. Was looking at Ballstopn spa, but I could pull it all together.

4. First guess was West Piont, as I recall seeing pictures from a high bluff over Hudson River but I realy couldn't confirm.  I was researching 15 inch rodman or a Masonry Fort and saw a picture from Ft. Defiance with same view.  So I resubmitted  my guess.

5. My first guess was based a Masonry fort and 15 inch Rodman and I knew Ft McHenry had some.  But then  I seemed to remember you guys made a high speed run past most everything to make the cannon shoot in VA and made no mention McHenry during your recent  of going there.  I started looking for again and while looking I found the Ft. Definace picture. Then the FT Knox sight.


6. Your right about this one I had a heck of time finding the Park.  Just pop the date in google and bang I had Exeter.  But finding the parks in Exeter was tough. Finally found a list of parks and bingo there was a picture of the cannon.

Google is kewl.  Google your  name, phone number and address, it will scare you.



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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2007, 06:55:34 AM »
Hats of to DD! Don't forget "google images" too. You will find alot of the same photos that have been posted. Just taken by other people. Doing this game search I even came across the same photo of the siege mortar in Cooperstown. I thought that was cool.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1018908243027444145boncsaKzqQ
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2007, 09:18:41 AM »
     Thanks, intoodeep for that tip; it's a good one too.  The wide variety of artillery pics you can find there is amazing.

DD,   Your methods and sequence of results are very interesting.  Mike and I really love the research end of this business and my favorite school course of all time has to be 7th grade 'Research'.  I actually sat in the front row for that one, not asleep in the back like I was in Math.

Best regards,

Tracy and Mike
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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
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From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #24 on: August 10, 2007, 01:27:19 PM »
well, Double D got a plastic doll, the other players got a pat on the back, but i'm the REAL WINNER!!!! Got me a "job" with Mike and Tracy on their Traveling Demonstration Team............ Hey, we get to take turns holding the plates,Right?          I enjoyed this contest, was great fun!!! when cooler weather gets here i'll try and snap some tough pics. Take care guys,Lance
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2007, 08:52:01 AM »
Last weeks irregualrly recieved Mail that sometimes comes as often as once a week had a box for me from Mike and Tracy and this was in it.



This just in case you are too young to rememberis a genuine Kewpie doll. 

Well the polite thing for me to have done would be send them off a nice thank you note...it would be nice but not as much fun as what I did.

Through the Magic of computers I have come up with this.



 You will see Kewpie award every now and then as well as Cannonboard Kewpie.  Keep looking.

And Mike and Tracy, thanks for Cannonboard Kewpie!! It did bring a smile in this house!!!
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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2007, 10:53:45 AM »
I was wondering about "KEWPIE" doll stamp On my last thread "Ole Little cannon" Now I understand its significance...

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2007, 12:52:51 PM »
     Glad the Kewpie arrived in good condition, DD, and that your family got a chuckle out of it; you certainly deserve it as an Artillery Sleuth, Extraordinaire!!  I really cannot explain why I didn't see your computer Kewpie creation before this.  I like it.  Too many hours in the shop recently trying to complete the junior Mallet's mortar and other 'real' work, I guess.  The 106mm recoiless took away most of my hearing, but I thought I still had pretty good vision.  Maybe I'll have it checked.    Regards, Tracy      Oh, almost forgot, we ran out of time on the GB mortar.  Don't worry, it WILL be painted white, just as I said it would be!


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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Where are these Cannon located?
« Reply #28 on: September 12, 2007, 05:49:24 PM »
You didn't see it because I was sly and clever....ouch got a kink in my neck patting myself on the back.  I think I only used it 4 or 5 times. 

i will award it every now and again and will accepted nominations by public aclaim.

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