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the remnants of the buildings which stand like dinosaur fossils in the middle of the woods. When I was a boy, there was a fire hydrant right in the middle of the woods in the Powder Hole. Someone broke it up with a sledge hammer and hauled it off to be sold for scrap. That means that it is one more thing that isn’t there for you to see. The buildings which were fine when my mother was a girl are now falling down, many of which have been knocked down by people with nothing better to do. Some have no walls standing at all, so you won’t be able to tell anything about them if you should go to see them. Most of this damage was done by people; not by the weather. It is now lost to all who might like to have seen it and understood what it was like to earn a living in a dangerous job. If you are truly interested, you can see a powder mill very like the one in the Powder Hole. It is at the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. Many of the buildings there are the same as those which stood in the Powder Hole, and some even have the machinery inside for you to see. The Hagley Museum was funded by the DuPont company as a monument to their history. |
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Credit R
Gilbert for his compilation and submission of this article.
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