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![Munitions Plant](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd0ccf793a6327c9e5014db/1572499903970-N34VUNR76BMW4FBVNAVZ/IMG_2579-HDR.jpg)
![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](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd0ccf793a6327c9e5014db/1572499907020-D1N6QS0W7YROG61YHEPP/IMG_2598.jpg)
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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](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd0ccf793a6327c9e5014db/1576131343288-V4329R5ZJ9JQO1S43RZF/IMG_0429.jpg)
![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.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd0ccf793a6327c9e5014db/1576130761964-MQJ9IH86C7KD5A862DUU/IMG_0452.jpg)
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