3 entries match your criteria.
Related Historical Markers
more additional information
courtesy of the Augusta Museum of History, June 6, 2010
The Confederate States Powder Works, Colonel George Washington Rains
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | When the conflict began in April 1861,
leaders on both sides were unprepared
to wage a long war. The Confederacy's
industrial capacity was especially lacking,
and munitions of all types were scarce.
Initial stores of gunpowder . . . — — Map (db m32882) HM |
| | (West side)
This
Obelisk-Chimney,
Sole remnant of the extensive
powder-works here erected
under the auspices of the
Confederate Government.
Is, by the Confederate
Survivors Association
of Augusta, with . . . — — Map (db m32871) HM |
| | In August, 1864, a violent explosion destroyed the granulating building of the Augusta Powder Works, one of the 28 buildings of the Confederacy’s massive gunpowder mill along Augusta Canal. Eight men and a boy died when 18,000 pounds of gunpowder . . . — — Map (db m53946) HM |
Apr. 18, 2024
