Proposed Catetory: Places > Ruins > Shot Towers

[+az_pistolero]

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?

[Jeremy]

Nice one. I always wondered what that was.

[+Crystal Sound]

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]

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]

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]

That's cool, and educational! I vote yes!

[+az_pistolero]

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