Munitions Plant
 The photo above and below this text are remnants of a system to carry cotton bales from the Cotton Dry House to the Nitrating House. There, the cotton was soaked in a chemical solution of nitric and sulfuric acid to make it explosive as part of the
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 A combination of Christmas day and wet, heavy sleet falling from the sky at 33º kept the sprawling site quiet as I explored for hours. The powder pack houses shown here were spaced well apart to mitigate the danger of a chain of explosions if one bl
 Buildings were built with thick brick walls and sheet metal roofs so in the event of an explosion, the blast would go up as opposed to horizontally towards adjacent buildings.
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