That cannon was removed in 1917, nobody knows where it went, possibly it was melted down as scrap.
What I'd always heard too! Remember that 1917 was the beginning of scrap metal drives for the War to end all wars here in the states!
Someone needed their ass kicked for that.
Think about it? A symbolism thing. Sacrifice and using something with a past history. Like this piece was used to fight Santa Anna! Now we are going to do our part and it will help
Defeat the Kaiser!!!
Hard to imagine now but the Alamo was almost removed entirely around the turn of the century, at the behest of local business interests who wanted to develop the real estate. That it was not we can mostly thank Adina de Zavala, granddaughter of the original interim Vice President. Then a wealthy society matron, Clara Driscoll, also stepped in. For better or worse their Daughters of the Republic organization would run the Alamo shrine for more than a century.
Hard to imagine now, but it took a while for the Alamo to catch on to the iconic status it has today (the Disney series Davy Crockett helped immeasurably in that regard).
At present, its still a huge tourist draw, but in 1917 not so much, ergo not WORTH as much to the bean counters.
No telling what that 4,000 pound hunk of iron sitting out in that park looked like after 47 years exposed to the weather, the bore possibly full of accumulated trash. Plus there's still six (??) original cannon, still broken and much pitted and eroded despite our modern restoration abilities, on the Alamo grounds. They don't look like much and most visitors walk right on by.
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San Pedro Park at the times, with its picturesque springs and cypress-shaded clear pool, was probably a bigger draw, and was remodeled/redeveloped several times to modernize it over the years. I'm guessing there was a faction in city council at the time only too happy to see that cannon sacrificed for a worthy cause.
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