Today we visited The Powder Magazine in Charleston. This building was built in 1712 and is the oldest building in SC. It was built to make gunpowder and was really well built for the era. If you look inside the front doors you will see one of the arches inside. The outer walls were built very thick and the arches were made with very thin plaster and were filled with sand. If they had an explosion in the building, the arches would serve as a fire-retardant (a very early sprinkler system of sorts). It amazes me that this building is nearly 300 years old.
The Powder Magazine Building
One of the interior arches
One of the interior arches
The steeple of St. Philips Church near The Powder Magazine.
There are no skyscrapers in Charleston as they have a law
that no building can be built higher than the highest church
steeple. There are many churches in Charleston with high
steeples that can be seen all over the cityscape.
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