Another USS Minnesota Cannon

While trying to find out more about the USS Minnesota cannon that was in the cemetery in Battle Creek, Michigan, I came across this cannon.

From HMDB  "Cannon"

Located in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Inscription:  "This nine inch Dahlgren cannon  was placed here to mark the colonial approach to town from the ferry landing and was dedicated on July 5, 1907.

The gun is on loan to the Borough of New Hope from the US Navy.  It was cast   in 1855 at the West  Point  Foundry and installed  on the USS Minnesota where it saw action at the Battle of Hampton Roads between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (Merrimack) on March 9, 1862.

Years later it was installed on the USS Richmond which saw action with Admiral Farragut's fleet.

It was fired 108 times as of September 1888."

The marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Ferry Street.

--Old B-Runner