Annie Jump Cannon, House

Title
Annie Jump Cannon, House
Biographical Text
Three story yellow wooden house.
Cannon observed her first stars from the roof of this house, her childhood home. It is said that she and her mother would open a trapdoor to the roof where they would observe the sky through an observatory that they built together.
A historical marker was placed outside the home in 2016.
Type
English Building
Bibliographic Citation
Annie Jump Cannon, Delaware.gov
Annie Jump Cannon, National Women's History Museum
Annie Jump Cannon, The Historical Marker Database
Project Researcher
Bysterbusch, Hailey
Item sets
The Penny Colman Collection of Historical Landmarks of Women

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