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By Bernard Fisher, November 3, 2009
Richmond Riverfront Canal Walk
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1 ► Virginia, Richmond, Gambles Hill — Confederate Laboratory —
Near South 7th Street at Tredegar Street.
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
On South 5th Street at Tredegar Street, on the left when traveling south on South 5th Street. 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
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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Nov. 11, 2026