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Savannah River Cannons - From Discovery to Museum - the journey ends
After 21 full and partial cannon along with various other artifacts were discovered and brought out of the Savannah River during the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project dredging operations in 2021-2022, officials from the Corps of Engineers, Coastal Heritage Society, the Commonwealth Heritage Group an
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After 21 full and partial cannon along with various other artifacts were discovered and brought out of the Savannah River during the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project dredging operations in 2021-2022, officials from the Corps of Engineers, Coastal Heritage Society, the Commonwealth Heritage Group and Texas A&M, collaborated to bring the conservation and ultimate return of 17 fully intact cannon to Savannah come to fruition. Now, two of the un-conserved along with the 17 conserved cannons, which are from scuttled British ships in 1779, are in their final resting place almost 250 years later at the Savannah History Museum.
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