+az_pistolero Posted November 17, 2005 Posted November 17, 2005 There's an "Iron Furnace" subcategory, but that doesn't fit shot towers, for example: Baltimore Shot Tower In the US, these appeared in revolutionary days. Indexes of shot tower locations seems pretty skinny -- are there really so few of them standing? I proposed a Waymarking category open caching shot towers around the world (not just CONUS), with at a minimum: 1) Photo(s) 2) Date built 3) Historical purpose 4) Current status 5) Current Description of the site Thoughts?
+Crystal Sound Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 (edited) I like it. Until your post, the one in Wytheville Virginia (Jackson's Ferry) was the only one I knew of. See GCG1RB - Old Tower I'd been there a few times on nearby business. I was happy to see a cache had been placed there, when I looked, after getting into caching. Edited November 18, 2005 by Crystal Sound
+az_pistolero Posted November 19, 2005 Author Posted November 19, 2005 There's a tower about an hour away from me I've been wanting to research. It has all the markings of a shot tower, but no signage visible to say what it is. (I'm in Arizona now). Most of the towers I've seen were on the east coast. I grew up outside Baltimore so that's why I chose that one in my first post. As a kid, I have memories of seeing these towers, figured this would be a good way to reminisce!
+kbarhow Posted November 20, 2005 Posted November 20, 2005 (edited) there is one near Cincinnati, OH, at the old Peters Cartridge factory. See my post for GCP3NN, with a picture of same. Edited November 20, 2005 by kbarhow
rescue557 Posted November 22, 2005 Posted November 22, 2005 That's cool, and educational! I vote yes!
+az_pistolero Posted April 6, 2006 Author Posted April 6, 2006 (edited) I've opened the enrollment for the "Shot Towers" waymark category (for a short while, at least). If you're interested in joining the category group, click Shot Towers Category Group and join! Don't know what a shot tower is? (you may not want to join the category group, then) here's the link Shot Towers Waymarks Edited April 6, 2006 by az_pistolero
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