Powder Magazine, Powder House, or Powderworks may refer to: *

Powder tower A powder tower (german: Pulverturm), occasionally also powder house (''Pulverhaus''), was a building used by the military or by mining companies, frequently a tower, to store gunpowder or, later, explosives. They were common until the 20th centur ...

or powder house, a building used to store gunpowder or explosives; common until the 20th century *

Gunpowder magazine A gunpowder magazine is a magazine (building) designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety. Gunpowder, until superseded, was a universal explosive used in the military and for civil engineering: both applications req ...

, a building designed to store gunpowder in wooden barrels; historical successor to the above *

Magazine (artillery) Magazine is the name for an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. It is taken originally from the Arabic word "makhāzin" (مخازن), meaning 'storehouses', via Italian and Middle French. The term is als ...

, an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored

Structures in the United States

:''Alphabetical by state or territory, then by town or city'' *

Powder Magazine (Montgomery, Alabama) The Powder Magazine is a historic building in Montgomery, Alabama. The gunpowder magazine was built in 1861 west of the city on a bluff overlooking the Alabama River. Gunpowder for the Confederate Army was stored there during the Civil War, an ...

, on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) listings in Montgomery County, Alabama *

Powder Magazine (Blue Ball, Arkansas) The Powder Magazine is a surviving structure of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp of the 1707th Company. Located in Ouachita National Forest in the northeast corner of Scott County, Arkansas, it is a small stone and concrete structure ...

, NRHP-listed *

Powder Magazine (Camp Drum) The Powder Magazine from Camp Drum is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument located in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, California, near the Port of Los Angeles. Built in 1862, the Powder Magazine is a brick and stone structure that w ...

, Los Angeles, California * Sanchez Powder House Site, St. Augustine, Florida, NRHP-listed *

Confederate Powderworks The Confederate Powderworks (a.k.a. the Augusta Powderworks) was a gunpowder factory during the American Civil War, the only permanent structures completed by the Confederate States of America.Bragg, C. L. (2001) "The Augusta powder works: The Con ...

, Augusta, Georgia *

Camp Parapet Powder Magazine Camp Parapet was a Civil War fortification at Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a bit more than a mile upriver from the current city limits of New Orleans. History The fortification consisted of a Confederate defensive line about a mile ...

, Metairie, Louisiana, NRHP-listed *

Powder House Square Powder House Square is a neighborhood and landmark rotary in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. It is also known locally as Powder House Circle. It is the 6-way intersection of College Avenue, Broadway, Warner Street, and Powder House Bo ...

, a neighborhood and landmark rotary in Somerville, Massachusetts ** Powder House Park, Somerville, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed *

Powder House Island Powder House Island (also known as Dynamite Island) is an artificial island on the lower Detroit River in southeast Michigan, directly adjacent to the Canada–United States border. It was constructed in the late 1880s by the Dunbar & Sulliv ...

, an artificial island in the Detroit River, Michigan *

Hessian Powder Magazine The Hessian Powder Magazine, also known as the Hessian Guardhouse Museum, is an historic guardhouse and gunpowder magazine which is located on the grounds of the Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the N ...

, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, NRHP-listed * Logans Ferry Powder Works Historic District, Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, NRHP-listed * Polvorín de Miraflores, San Juan, Puerto Rico, NRHP-listed *

Fort Johnson (South Carolina) Fort Johnson is a state-owned historic site of military and political significance located on the northeast point of James Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. History Fort Johnson was strategically important during the colonial e ...

Powder Magazine, NRHP-listed *

Powder Magazine (Charleston, South Carolina) The Powder Magazine is a gunpowder magazine and museum at 79 Cumberland Street in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Completed in 1713, it is the oldest surviving public building in the former Province of Carolina. It was used as a gunpowder store ...

, a U.S. National Historic Landmark and NRHP-listed *

Jefferson Ordnance Magazine The Jefferson Ordnance Magazine in Jefferson, Texas, United States, is located 0.3 miles northeast of the US-59B crossing of Big Cypress Bayou. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is located across the Big Cypress ...

, Jefferson, Texas, NRHP-listed * Civilian Conservation Corps Powder Magazine, Torrey, Utah, NRHP-listed

Other uses

* "Powderworks" (song), by Midnight Oil, 1978 * ''Powder Magazine'' (skiing), a snow-skiing magazine for which

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