Civil War Era Landmine Discovered In Arkansas

Not all buried artifacts are harmless, as was the case in Arkansas this week, when a man unearthed what he thought was an antique cannonball, but turned out to be an unexploded landmine. The local bomb squad was called in to detonate it, and all ended well.

An Arkansas man stumbled across what he assumed was an old cannonball. It turned out to be a Civil War era landmine. Twenty households were forced to evacuate.

Source: Civil War Era Landmine Discovery In Arkansas Leads To Evacuation

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1 Response

  1. Wendy says:

    Goodness. I didn’t realize they had landmines in the Civil War.
    ~Visiting from AtoZ
    Wendy at Jollett Etc.

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