I had business in the Livestock Exchange Building that is next door to the Cowtown Coliseum. As I pulled up to park, I saw something that I had never noticed before. I have only been in the Coliseum a few times and it was wall to wall people each time. This cannon caught my eye. I made a point to return for a photo op after I finish my business.
My business in the Exchange Building was in the Stockyards museum which is operated by the North Fort Worth Historical Society, which I am a member. The person who helped me at the museum told me a little about this cannon.
It was found in the San Antonio River, not far from the Alamo. Evidence indicates that this was very likely to have been one of the cannons from the Alamo that was captured and destroyed by Santa Anna's Mexican Army. They dumped it in the river where it remained undiscovered for 103 years. When it was found, the Alamo had not yet been restored and nobody there wanted the cannon, so it was brought to Fort Worth.
They now want the cannon back, but here it stays, at least until there is a public outcry to take it home. But an outcry would probably lead in another direction by a faction who wants it destroyed along with all other reminders that Texas was stolen from Mexico. That would be similar to what some people want in eradicating monuments to the South's Civil War ancestors.
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