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 In a three month period, archaeologists found two cannonballs from the famous Battle of Alamo, 1836.

The one on the left is from the Mexican side, and is made of bronze.

The one on the right is from the Texas side, made of iron.

While many other pieces of ammunition and shrapnel have been found around the site, these are the first examples of "solid shots" they have ever found.


The battle was part of the Texas Revolution, and it became a state 10 years later in 1846.

It was the westernmost slave state, and today is Juneteenth.

The day that the news of freedom finally reached Galveston in 1865.

The Bolivar Archaeological Project has recovered artifacts belonging to pioneering Black entrepreneurs during Reconstruction.  

Tom Cook


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