Spring Creek powder mill
Powder works, Tomball, Texas.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Powder works
- Where
- Tomball, Texas
- Years
- 1861-1863
- Today
- Park
SPRING CREEK POWDER MILL
The Spring Creek powder mill made cannon powder for the Confederate Army from 1861. An explosion destroyed the mill in 1863 and killed three of its employees.
Then
The mill made cannon powder for the Confederate Army from 1861.
An explosion destroyed the mill in 1863 and killed three employees.
Now
Park
A marker stands in a clearing in Spring Creek Park.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by BNSF, about 2.0 miles away.
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