Photo by John Frick, 2025
| Designation: | 3in Ordnance Rifle M1861 |
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| Identification No: | Phoenix 852: US |
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| Designed by: | US Army Ordnance Department |
| Built at: | Phoenix Iron Co |
| Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Year : | 1865 |
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| | Item Category: | Artillery, Black Powder, Iron |
| Memorial Information |
| Owner: | US Government |
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| Item: | a condemned cannon with suitable outfit of cannon balls |
| Request doc.: | 60th Congress, Session I, HR 19738 by Rep Ashbrook |
| Year: | 1908 |
| Delivery Doc: | Bill expired at the end of Congress |
| On loan to: | City of Newark |
| Reference: | GPO-CRECB-1908-pt9-v42.pdf: pdf pg 1666 |
Reference Documents / websites: |
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| The Big Guns, pg 280: D16, 26 |
| https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM40J6_Cedar_Hill_Cemetery_cannon |
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Last update to record: 2026-03-05
