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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
The fort was named after Sir Nathaniel Johnson, who served as the Governor of Carolina from 1703 to 1709. It was the site of the first raising of the South Carolina state flag in 1775. The magazine was built in 1765 and is a brick structure that measures 27 feet long and 20 feet wide.
Description "Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina" Albumen silver print from glass negative. The Art Institute of Chicago identifies it as plate 60 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)
September 12, 1994 (Roughly along the Ashley River from just east of South Carolina Highway 165 to the Seaboard Coast Line railroad bridge: West Ashley: Extends into other parts of Charleston and into Dorchester counties; boundary increase (listed October 22, 2010): Northwest of Charleston between the northeast bank of the Ashley River and the Ashley-Stono Canal and east of Delmar Highway ...
Two decades ago, film producers came to South Carolina to scout locations for a new film based on the novel The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. With its historic mansions, beautifully preserved ...
Gibbes Museum of Art; H. Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art; Heyward-Washington House; I. ... Powder Magazine (Charleston, South Carolina) R. Nathaniel Russell ...
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