Item 85610 - Oriental Powder Mills gunpowder keg, Gorham and Windham, ca. 1860
- Item 85610 - Oriental Powder Mills gunpowder keg, Gorham and Windham, ca. 1860
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- Item 85610
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Image Info This Oriental Powder Mill's gunpowder keg is made of pine with four willow strips at the top and bottom of the keg. As indicated on a printed label at the top end of the keg, it held No. 3 fowl and rifle gunpowder, which was produced at the gunpowder mills located on the Presumpscot River between Gorham and Windham.
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Also known as the Gambo Mill, the Oriental Powder Mill produced 25 percent of the gunpowder for the Union forces during the Civil War.
