There was a 105-year history of gunpowder manufacture in this area. A 1921 history of Maynard noted that many local men found employment in the American Powder Mills, adding, "...occasional explosions ...
Full of the wishful conviction (after Versailles) that a world war was too horrible ever to happen again, the U. S. turned its back on $155,000,000 of Government investment in powder mills, sold out ...
When a gunpowder mill in Minden, Louisiana, caught spark and blew up in June 2021, the Pentagon lost its sole domestic producer of black powder, the original gunpowder developed in China in the 9th ...
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An explosion at Oliver Powder Mills in Laurel Run on Wilkes-Barre Mountain was heard from Nanticoke to Pittston on Aug. 4, 1904. A father was killed while his son and two girls were injured in the ...
East Pikeland >> Pennsylvania’s only gunpowder mill constructed under the authority of the Continental Congress will soon be added to the National Register of Historic Places. According to an ...
A visual reminder of Tomball's ties to Civil War history can be found at Spring Creek Park, 15012 Brown Road. A Texas Historical Marker at the northwest corner of the park commemorates the site where ...
I first heard the tale of the Stocking Mill while touring the Historical Society of Glastonbury’s Museum on the Green with its curator, Lin Scarduzio. After showing me displays of the town’s ...
HOLLENBACK TWP. – Ron Hall led hikers down a gorge and spent two hours pointing out ruins of a gunpowder mill along the Big Wapwallopen Creek before he paused and asked the men in his group to remove ...
On April 23, 1847 at about four in the afternoon, the people of South Barre were startled by a tremendous blast that shook the ground beneath their feet. The Hobbs powder mill had blown sky high. The ...
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. – It was the biggest fishing day in Rochester on Saturday. They call it a “Trout Derby”. It took place at Powder Mills Park in Pittsford. The derby is a trout season opening day ...
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