Princeton Cannon

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $15.95

Stock #:1066285
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Christie Whiteman
Postmark City: Princeton
Postmark State: NJ
Stamp: 13c US Bicentennial
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Mr. Chris H. Whiteman
453 Jefferson Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
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Left at Princeton, N.J. by the English Army during the revolutionary war. During the war with Great Britain in 1812, the largest cannon was taken to New Brunswick N.J., as protection from the expected attack of the British Squadron. The cannon was later brought back to Princeton where it now peacefully reposes, serving as a target for the clay pipes of the graduating class when they have finished their last smoke together at the close of the Cannon Exercises which are held each year around the cannon.

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