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Excerpt from The Old Cannon Foundry, Above Georgetown, D. C. And Its First Owner, Henry Foxall
Great difficulty was experienced at the beginning of the war in obtaining supplies. The arsenal at Annapolis was almost empty. To overcome these difficulties, the Convention gave encouragement and gratuities for the manufacture of saltpetre, materials for clothing, and munitions of war. Powder-mills were erected, and Colonel Hughes, of Washing ton County, agreed to furnish cannon for the province, and established a foundry on the Potomac River, one mile above Georgetown, where the first cannon were made in this coun try. A portion of the old stone building still remains, while broken fragments of cannon are at this time to be found in the stream of water that ?ows at the base of the building. Daniel and James Hughes, of the Antietam Iron Works in Washington County, and John Yoast, of Georgetown, also made cannon for the Revolution. Shells and cannon were also made at Catoctin Furnace, in Frederick County, by James and Thomas Johnson, during the Revolution, and some were used at the siege of Yorktown.
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