When the cannons were removed from in front of the town hall sometime before October 1, 1901, they along with their two granite carriages were stored on the pine knoll just to the left and behind the brick receiving tomb in the back of the First Parish Cemetery. Long time York resident Ted Bragdon remembers playing on those cannons on his way to the Village Elementary School from his home on Long Sands Road.

In 1995 they were sold (without permission) to Fort McClary in Kittery, Maine. However, they proved to be unsuitable for that facility’s Civil War cannons as they were made by a different company and do not share the same outside geometry. The two Parrott Rifle granite carriages were creatively used as ends for a pine bench in the Fort’s Park across the street. Found by this researcher in July of 2016, they were repurchased by the First Parish Cemetery, recovered by the FPC grave digging crew and now rest on the cemetery’s Ceremonial Circle.