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Nineteen cannons recovered from the bottom of the Savannah River after nearly 240 years underwater went on permanent display Thursday at the Savannah History Museum, part of a new exhibit timed to national America 250 commemorations.
Army Corps of Engineers stumbled on the cache in 2021 while dredging the river to accommodate larger cargo ships.
Coastal Heritage Society CEO Nora Fleming Lee described the haul as the largest single-event discovery of 18th-century Revolutionary War artillery on record.
Discovery and Recovery Workers pulled up 19 cannon alongside roughly a dozen smaller artifacts.
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