{"id":36793,"date":"2021-11-06T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36793"},"modified":"2021-11-06T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:03:19","slug":"sparks-shot-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/11\/06\/sparks-shot-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks Shot Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sparks Shot Tower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51660141894\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51660141894_cca14abb2b_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sparks Shot Tower\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The\u00a0<b>Sparks Shot Tower<\/b>\u00a0is a historic\u00a0shot tower\u00a0located at 129-131 Carpenter Street in\u00a0Philadelphia,\u00a0Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>According to the historic marker near the foot of this tower:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First in the nation. Built 1808 by Thomas Sparks and John Bishop to make hunting shot. It symbolized a new U.S. industrial independence. Bishop, a Quaker, sold his share when ammunition was made here for the War of 1812. The Sparks family stayed in control until 1903.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Sparks Shot Tower\u00a0is a historic\u00a0shot tower\u00a0located at 129-131 Carpenter Street in\u00a0Philadelphia,\u00a0Pennsylvania. According to the historic marker near the foot of this tower: First in the nation. Built 1808 by Thomas Sparks and John Bishop to make hunting shot. It symbolized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/11\/06\/sparks-shot-tower\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4079,104,3809],"tags":[4677,3741,5200,5198,3669,5199,228],"class_list":["post-36793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looking-south","category-philadelphia","category-south-philly-safari","tag-guns","tag-history","tag-hunting","tag-munition","tag-philadelphia","tag-sparks","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9zr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20214,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/01\/05\/2-towers-on-washington-ave\/","url_meta":{"origin":36793,"position":0},"title":"2 Towers on Washington Ave","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Shot Tower and The Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church which is now The Phat Quang Buddhist Temple way down Washington Avenue shot from way up Washington Avenue with a long lens.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Shot Tower & The Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1555\/24181348035_d726e23840_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11324,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/01\/12\/towers-tower\/","url_meta":{"origin":36793,"position":1},"title":"Tower&#8217;s Tower","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fixing an O","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8360\/8267289762_49aa7de5c2_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19504,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/08\/25\/across-the-street-from-philadelphia-national-bank\/","url_meta":{"origin":36793,"position":2},"title":"Across the street from Philadelphia National Bank","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. 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