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The Powder Magazine is a gunpowder magazine and museum at 79 Cumberland Street in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Completed in 1713, it is the oldest surviving public building in the former Province of Carolina. It was used as a gunpowder store through the American Revolutionary War, and later saw other uses. [3]
Powder Magazine, Powder House, or Powderworks may refer to: Powder tower or powder house, a building used to store gunpowder or explosives; common until the 20th century Gunpowder magazine , a building designed to store gunpowder in wooden barrels; historical successor to the above
Drawing of the octagonal Williamsburg Magazine. On the early morning of April 21, 1775 Royal Navy sailors went to the Williamsburg powder magazine, loaded fifteen half barrels of powder into the governor's wagon, and transported it to the eastern end of the Quarterpath Road to be loaded aboard the Magdalen in the James River. The act was ...
1809 drawing by Benjamin Henry Latrobe showing the elevation, cross-section, and plan of a proposed gunpowder magazine. A gunpowder magazine is a magazine (building) designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety.
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The Powder Magazine is a historic building in Montgomery, Alabama. The gunpowder magazine was built in 1861 west of the city on a bluff overlooking the Alabama River . Gunpowder for the Confederate Army was stored there during the Civil War , and afterward it was used for general storage. [ 2 ]
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