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Cannons enter scrap drives as World War II aid evolves
The 1900 Greene Square and Bever Park cannons moved from Cedar Rapids parks to join war efforts. Cannons faced removal in 1942 as the war department urged scrap of metal relics, with local efforts to break or rehome the pieces ending in one cannon shipped to a Peoria steel mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Templeman
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Haskell
Fort Hancock
Sandy Hook
N.J
R.W. Bushnell
Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway
Fourth
Fifth Avenues
Bever Park
Joe Christie
Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
E.J.C. Bealer
Bealer
Greene Square
Louis Wokoun
The
Gazette
Washington High School
War Department
Iowa
First Avenue
Linn County
Cedar Memorial Park
Ora Williams
George S. Bushnell
Edwin L. Ruprecht
Edwin
Bushnell
la Plant-Choate Company
the Gazette Chronicle
E. Cohn and Sons
S. St. SW
Harry Cohn
Peoria
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the History Center