A rare powder horn that belonged to an African American soldier killed in the Revolutionary War has gone on display in Philadelphia. The elaborately carved cow’s horn belonged to Gershom Prince, who ...
An 18th-century gunpowder container made from an oxen horn has been returned to the Detroit-area museum it was stolen from more than 60 years ago. Recently recovered by the FBI, the Nowlin Powder Horn ...
This powder horn, which likely dates to sometime between 1757 and 1760, is inscribed with a map of the Hudson and Mohawk river valleys. Details visible on the horn include Lakes Champlain and Ontario, ...
BELCHERTOWN — In the summer of 1971, Michael Corbett, a visitor to the Stone House Museum, arriving with his girlfriend, signed the guestbook and toured the historic building at a time when it still ...
They were convenient and functional, the Colonial grunt’s answer to the European soldier’s manufactured cartridge box. But through years of encampments, marches and battles, some of these hollowed ...
Due to popular demand, the Fort Pitt Museum, part of the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center museum system, will extend its “From Maps to Mermaids: Carved Powder Horns in Early ...
Q: I live in Gainesville, Georgia. I have heard your program on the radio on a few visits with my brother who lives in Gainesville, Florida. He suggested that I send you some photos of a powder horn I ...
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