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Related Historical Markers
By Bernard Fisher, March 30, 2013
Brown's Island (left) and Tredegar Iron Works (right)
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| 1 ► 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 | |||
2 ► Virginia, Richmond, North Side — Brown's Island Disaster —  |
| On March 13, 1863, an explosion destroyed much of the Confederate States Laboratory, a munitions facility on Brown's Island in the James River. 47 workers died, mostly girls under the age 17, who helped fill manpower needs and whose small hands . . . — — Map (db m79713) HM WM | |||