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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 298307, member: 54&quot;]If I have to “adopt” one of the many 19th C. Iron foundries that used the name “Union” it’d be this one, which traded under that name 1851-1907.&nbsp; When I get time I’ll contact the town of Catasauqua, in the Lehigh Valley near Allentown, and find their local expert on that foundry.&nbsp; There are several little clues that make this foundry a bit more likely as a source of this cannon, than some of the other “Union” foundries.&nbsp; One is the fact that the cannon was de-accessed from storage at a National Park Service Site in eastern PA, which listed the source on the transfer papers as “gift.”</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.history.catasauqua.org/historic-walking-tours/industrial-walking-tours/union-foundry-and-machine-company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.history.catasauqua.org/historic-walking-tours/industrial-walking-tours/union-foundry-and-machine-company" rel="nofollow">http://www.history.catasauqua.org/historic-walking-tours/industrial-walking-tours/union-foundry-and-machine-company</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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