Name/Title
Cannon | 6 Green Street | I7-0C4-37 | District #153Entry/Object ID
153Description
The C.A. & Co. stamped on the center of the right trunnion stands for Cyrus Alger & Company, a South Boston, Massachusetts foundry where this cannon was cast.The 1839 stamped on the center of the left trunnion is the year this cannon was cast. It's serial number is 695, and it weighs 1568 pounds.The cannon was one of two similar field cannons that were once part of Fort Sullivan in Eastport, Maine. The fort was decommissioned in 1873 and one of the cannons went to Lubec where it stood next to the Civil War monument on lower Main Street and the other one went to the Grand Army Hall on Green Street in Eastport where it stood next to the Hall. Around 1920, the cannon was fired off and damaged a neighboring house. The head of the veterans hall ordered the cannon to removed from its site next to the hall and the cannon was relocated to the front of the Peavey Memorial Library building in Eastport. In March, 2024 the library board voted to gift the cannon to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art. The cannon was relocated on May 9, 2025 to stand once again next to the Grand Army Hall on Green Street.
