shot tower

The process was later brought above ground through the building of shot towers.

It is one of the few shot towers left in the nation.

The name derives from the former use as shot tower.

The shot tower was demolished in the late 20th century.

Building R-1 and the brick shot tower survived into the 21st century.

Other settlers joined the shot tower employees and the village grew.

His words falling from a shot tower hit the water and up it spurted.

Much of the area along the river next to the Shot Tower is now a nature reserve.

However, the 1829 shot tower admired by Joyce no longer survives.

A taller brick shot tower painted with a large P became a local landmark.

The shot tower struggled almost immediately due to economic downturn from the Panic of 1857.

The smelting house contains exhibits about the construction and use of the shot tower.

The purpose of the shot tower was to produce lead shot to be used in firearms.

A rare steel frame shot tower for the creation of lead pellets.

Some remains of it can still be seen, but the only major surviving structure is the Shot Tower, built in 1828.

Other notable buildings include the preserved shot tower, the highest structure in Chester.

The mills have disappeared, but the Shot Tower still stands nearby.

Its shot tower was a distinctive landmark on the skyline until being demolished the late 20th century.

Shot towers were devised in the eighteenth century for the casting of lead shot.

Drop towers called shot towers were once useful for making lead shot.

From the Shot Tower, radio signals were bounced back from the moon.

These frame striking views of the Bonnet Hill valley and its historic shot tower.

Located on it is the famous Shot Tower.

The old shot tower and its new ferocious inhabitants, which Loren was to spend a summer nurturing, suited him exactly.

A military look-out post in Tynemouth dating from 1916 is also believed to have doubled as a shot tower.