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Related Historical Markers
By Bernard Fisher, November 3, 2009
Richmond Riverfront Canal Walk
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Virginia, Richmond, Gambles Hill — Confederate Laboratory —  |
| Brown’s Island was the site of the Confederate Laboratory, a major powder-loading and cartridge-producing plant during the Civil War. During the Civil War, the hazardous work of loading powder was carried out here on Brown’s Island because of . . . — — Map (db m24098) HM | |||
| 2 ► Virginia, Richmond, Gambles Hill — SA-101 — Confederate Ordnance Lab Explosion — Reported missing |
| In 1862, during the Civil War, Confederates established an ordnance laboratory and complex on the western part of nearby Brown’s Island. Workers there, many of them women and children who were forced to find employment because of the economic . . . — — Map (db m288190) HM | |||