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April 25, 2017

Civil War-era cannonballs to be removed from jobsite

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dozens of Civil War-era cannonballs unearthed at a Pittsburgh construction site will be removed by a Maryland firm.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Ordnance Holdings of Reisterstown has been hired to remove the cannonballs found near the former site of the Allegheny Arsenal. The arsenal supplied the Union Army, and an explosion there in September 1862 killed 78 people, many of them female employees.


 
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