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Shot Tower PA1682 Print E-mail
First in the nation. Built 1808 by Thomas Sparks & John Bishop to make hunting shot, it symbolized a new U.S. industrial independence. Bishop, a Quaker, sold his share when ammunition was made here for the War of 1812. The Sparks family stayed in control until 1903.
Carpenter & Front Sts., Philadelphia. Philadelphia County Pennsylvania.
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