— Fort Pickens —
Feel the grooves inside this rare cannon barrel. This Rodman cannon was cast in 1861 as a 10-inch smoothbore, which fired round cannonballs. To keep up with modern technology, the U.S. Army in 1884 inserted an 8-inch rifled sleeve into the old cast-iron barrel, because rifled guns had longer ranges than smoothbores, Steel later replaced cast iron, and the old guns were sold for scrap. The piece on the right is a smoothbore. The piece on the left is part of a rifled bore.| HM Number | HM1INO |
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| Placed By | The National Park Service, Department of the Interior |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Friday, January 2nd, 2015 at 9:01pm PST -08:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16R E 472069 N 3355095 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 30.32735000, -87.29055000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 30° 19.641', W 87° 17.433' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 30° 19' 38.46" N, 87° 17' 25.98" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 850 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1493-1499 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach FL 32561, US |
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