Shot Tower

All right. Here it is. The project is pretty far along.The project being a historical novel. Research must STOP! Thirty-plus years off-and-on should be enough! Two official false-starts and then three strikes and you're out! The photo here is the best and most dynamic of the Tower I've come across so far, for the purposes. The purposes being a candidate for a cover (if acquirable, reasonably.) This is from an informative page about the Shot Tower at a quite interesting site altogether there at Workshop of the World - Philadelphia. The authors may be only slightly, and forgivably, remiss in not noting the cultural significance of the building. Forgivably because it would be a somewhat editorial observation. What you're looking at when you see the Shot Tower is the birthplace of the American arms industry.

As a side note, the tropical-looking vegetation in the photo is known as the Tree of Paradise. Any wandering city boy would know it -- if not by name  -- that species of critter being expert in the flora and fauna of your urban vacant lot. It is tropical in origin but thrives in temperate climates. It's being tagged as "invasive" these days by those who go about such things. But back in the day who knew from invasive? It was here and it was everywhere and it wasn't going anywhere.

Here's another side of it, this bad baaad invasive tree is being used as a Tree of Solace for cancer patients.