There are some place, mostly in the deep South, where the Civil War never ended. Well you can add Georgetown to that list! (Not really)
A homeowner on Cambridge St. hired a chimney sweep to clean their flu. What did they ash-covered cheerful chimbley sweep find? A freakin’ Civil War cannon. From an public safety alert:
The fire department has confirmed that a potentially explosive Civil War Cannon Ball discovered in a fireplace on Cambridge Place.
The Military has been called to remove the ordinance.
30th St between R & O is closed. Please avoid this area.
You can’t make this up…
NBC reported that the homeowner actually found the cannonball months ago and only yesterday alerted the authorities to the possibility that it could still be explosive.
A couple questions come to mind, like, how the hell did a cannonball end up in a chimney in Georgetown? And how the hell has it not been found for over 150 years? Why hasn’t this house burned down due to an egregious failure to adequately clean the chimney?
For a reference, remember this photo of the first ever Ms. America that GM colorized?
Behind her somewhere is a cannonball in a chimney, that has already been there sixty some-odd years!
Whatever the provenance of the cannonball, GM just hopes it ends up in the Peabody Room!
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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