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Cannonball House

Lewes, DE

This historic house still carries physical evidence of the British bombardment of Lewes in April 1813. A cannonball associated with the attack is preserved inside, turning a quiet house museum into one of Delaware's clearest pieces of visible War of 1812 damage.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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