Powder Explosion

Adonijah Peacock died in

January 1777 while drying

a shipment of gunpowder

rejected by Washington’s

Valley Forge Quartermaster.

Marker is on Branin Road south of Chapel Avenue, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Explosion At The Confederate Powder Works

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 ...