The Powder Magazine

This crater marks the site of the powder magazine. The underground structure was 40 feet long, 12 feet high and 12 feet wide. It was covered with 15 feet of earth to protect it from enemy fire. Some 20 tons ...

The Old Powder Magazine

The Old Powder Magazine

is the only public building remaining from the era of the Lords Proprietors, the eight English aristocrats who owned Carolina from 1670 to 1719.

Charles Town, as the capital and southernmost English settlement on the continent, ...

The Hessian Powder Magazine

The Hessian Powder Magazine was constructed at Carlisle Barracks in 1777 during the American War for Independence from the British government. Carlisle was a growing depot in support of Gen. George Washington's Continental Army. The magazine stored valuable gunpowder, cannon ...

The Magazine

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Dedicated to those militiamen who were

buried in the magazine and the surrounding battlefield

on OCTOBER 11, 1774

Col. Charles Lewis, Col. John Field, Capt. Thomas Buford,

Cpt. Robert McClenachan, Capt. John Murray, Cpt. James Ward,

Capt. Samuel Wilson, Lt. Hugh Allen, ...