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A Civil War cannonball has been discovered lodged in a walnut tree at a historic house in Independence, Mo. Fox 4 Kansas City reports that the incredible find at the Overfelt-Johnston house was made ...

A Middletown property owner was digging around an old tree when they found what appeared to be a cannonball Wednesday.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — After crews found a historic cannon ball in an old tree, a man more than 1,000 miles away is going to carve some of that tree’s wood into useful artwork. Crews removing a diseased ...

THE DECADES-OLD TREE AT PLEASANT AND WALNUT IN INDEPENDENCE WAS DISEASED AND HAD TO COME DOWN. THE MAN HIRED TO DO THAT WAS CHOPPING UP LEFTOVER PIECES WHEN THIS FELL OUT, A CIVIL WAR CANNONBALL. >> ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A worker has found ...

In 1935, a pair of men cut down a towering elm tree on their farm in Jordan, N.Y. Lodged deep in the trunk, buried in layer upon layer of new wood, they found a six-pound cannonball -- a relic of a ...