{"id":127314,"date":"2026-01-17T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:37:08","slug":"popular-pepperonis-pizza-opening-in-san-antonio-more-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127314\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Pepperoni’s Pizza opening in San Antonio & more news"},"content":{"rendered":"

It turns out the Alamo<\/a>‘s original 1836 cannons are good for more than just defense \u2014 they also make a sturdy birdbath. After serving as a garden ornament for Samuel Maverick\u2019s descendants, an authentic piece of San Antonio history is finally returning home to the revered mission.<\/p>\n

According to an Alamo announcement, the swivel cannon weighs 90 pounds and is approximately three feet long. The relic was originally found in 1852 when Maverick built a home near the northwest corner of the battle\u2019s site.<\/p>\n

The lawyer and land baron was saved from death when he was urged by William Barret Travis to ride to the Texas Declaration of Independence convention in Washington-on-the-Brazos to send reinforcements. Returning to the Alamo\u2019s grounds, he found a cache of cannons buried where the Hotel Gibbs sits today.<\/p>\n

From there, the cannon wound up at the Maverick family\u2019s Sunshine Ranch on the Northwest Side, where it was eventually incorporated into the garden DIY project. In 1955, the cannon was removed from the ranch, and the current location remained a mystery until the Alamo received a call from a Maverick relative in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n

\"Alamo This Alamo artifact gives an idea of what the cannon will look like once restoration is complete.Photo courtesy of the Alamo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe relative graciously donated the cannon to the Alamo,\u201d wrote a rep from the mission. \u201cAlamo Senior Researcher and Historian Kolby Lanham and Head Conservator Pam Jary Rosser drove down the very next day to take this piece of history home to the Alamo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the artillery is mostly intact, it is missing its trunnions (the pivot-point protrusions on the sides of the barrel) and cascabel (the knob and neck assembly at the rear of historic muzzle-loading cannons). The parts were removed by the Mexican army to make the cannon inoperable.<\/p>\n

Once preservation is complete, this cannon and the Alamo Collection\u2019s other battle cannons will make their way to the upcoming Visitor Center and Museum, where they will be joined by rocker Phil Collins’ collection of Alamo artifacts. The Alamo is in the midst of a $550 million preservation project<\/a>, which includes conserving the Alamo Church, Long Barrack, and the mission\u2019s original footprint. The museum is on track to debut in late 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It turns out the Alamo‘s original 1836 cannons are good for more than just defense \u2014 they also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11957,11703,427,7959,423,742,7048,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-127314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-chicken","9":"tag-costco","10":"tag-hot-headlines","11":"tag-most-popular-stories","12":"tag-openings","13":"tag-pearl","14":"tag-pizza","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","17":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}