Elizabethtown, Kentucky - Approximate Cannonball in Building
- Address:
- US Hwy 62, Elizabethtown, KY [Show Map]
- Directions:
- US 62, downtown Elizabethtown in the town square, in a blue-toned building near lawyer offices.
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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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