- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Explosion at the Confederate Powder Works historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Richmond County
Industrial accidents--Georgia--Augusta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Southwest side of the Eve Street Bridge at the Augusta Canal
Text of marker: "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 exploded in one of the most lethal industrial accidents in the Civil War South. This, along with poor pay, prompted women at the facility to go on strike the following October. With many men away in the army, an increasing number of women and children were pulled into the workforce. The unsuccessful strike was one of many at war-time industrial facilities across Georgia, where pay was low and working conditions often dangerous. 2011.4 Erected for the Civil War 150 commemoration by the Georgia Historical Society, the Georgia Department of Economic Development, and the Augusta Canal Authority 121-15" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_explosion-at-the-confederate-powder-works
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_explosion-at-the-confederate-powder-works
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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