Identifier: americapicturesq01cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, P.F. Collier
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The finest building is the State House, asthe Capitol is called, the Delaware Rivers swift cur-rent bubbling over rocks and among grassy islandsout in front of the grounds. At Broad and ClintonStreets, the intersection of two of the chief high-ways, mounted as an ornament upon a drinking-foun-tain, is the famous Swamp Angel cannon, broughtfrom Charleston harbor after the Civil War. Thiswas one of the earliest heavy guns made, plain andrather uncouth-looking, about ten feet long, andrudely constructed in contrast with the elongated andtapering rifled cannon of to-day, and it rests upon aconical pile of brownstone. It was the most notedgun of the Civil War, an eight-inch Parrott rifle, ortwo-hundred-pounder, and, when fired, carried aone-hundred-and-fifty-pound projectile seven thou-sand yards from a battery on Morris Island into thecity of Charleston, which was then regarded as aprodigious achievement. It is a muzzle-loader, weigh-ing about eight tons, and burst after firing thirty-six
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THE Nhv: YQRKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOH. £ TILDE^ JN& TRENTON AND ITS BATTLE MONUMENT. 213 rounds at Charleston, in August, 1863, the fracturebeing plainly seen around the breech. Trentons great historical feature is the Revolu-tionary battlefield, now completely built upon. Wash-ington, having crossed the Delaware on Christmasnight, in the early morning of December 26, 1776,marched down to Trenton, and surprised and defeatedthe Hessians under Rahl, who were encamped northof Assunpink Creek. A line battle-monument standsin a small park adjoining Warren Street, at the pointwhere Washingtons army, coming into town fromthe north, first engaged the enemy. Here AlexanderHamilton, then Captain of the New York State Com-pany of Artillery, opened fire from his battery on theHessians, who fled through the town, along Warren,then called King Street. The monument is a flutedRoman-Doric column, rising one hundred and thirty-five feet, surmounted by a statue of Washington,representing him standing,

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