While researching the the State Department of Historical Resources Marker Program I came across this
recent sign approval (July 2012) . . .
"The 'Confederate Ordnance Lab Explosion
relays the story of the massive explosion' in March, 1863 that destroyed
the building on Brown’s Island that housed an assembly production for
cartridges and other ammunition. The “ordnance laboratory and complex”
employed many women and children and at least 40 people were killed in
the explosion, which was set off when “worker Mary Ryan accidentally
ignited a friction primer according to the marker."
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