Elizabethtown, Kentucky - Approximate Cannonball in Building

Address:
US Hwy 62, Elizabethtown, KY
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US 62, downtown Elizabethtown in the town square, in a blue-toned building near lawyer offices.

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Cannonball building, with inset closeup view.  Elizabethtown, Kentucky - Approximate Cannonball in Building

In 1862, 3,900 Confederate solders attacked Elizabethtown, raining over 100 cannonballs on the town. One lodged in the outside wall of a building. The building burned down in 1887, so when the new structure went up, they put the cannonball back as close to the original spot as they could... [Jim Johnson, 07/15/2001]

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