In 1866, a wooden figurehead was sent to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD that was salvaged from a ship sunk in the Civil War (to prevent it getting into Confederate hands) from the line 'Delaware.' It was called various names before its...
Table of Contents: Stump-blasting contests; Marble shooting in Missouri; Back in the early sixties; Quarrying Texas trap rock; Shades come smilin' thru; Pocket knives and Pyralin; Pyralin in the sanitary field; That Montana mountain slide; Duco in...