Old Powder Magazine | History of SC Slide Collection

The "old powder magazine," built in 1703 as part of the northwest bastion of the city's original fortifications, was a storage area for arms as Charleston prepared for the Revolutionary War.

Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.

Standards

• 4.2.P Analyze the sequence of events that led to the establishment of the U.S. as a democratic republic.