Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A piece of Winchendon’s history has been restored and returned to its proper place in the community. When members of Eugene M.

The Gettysburg Gun is instantly recognizable by the cannonball stuck in its muzzle.

A blast that harkens back to the past. The Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon was fired Saturday, Aug. 9, in Smiley Park. The raucous noise of the reproduction Model 1857 ...

In the half-century after the Civil War, about 12,000 obsolete cannons were donated to towns and veterans' groups. Many were melted down in scrap-metal drives during the world wars, and fewer than ...