30 SECONDS OVER THE ALLEGHENY ARSENAL EXPLOSION SITE — On Sept. 17, 1862 — the same day as the Battle of Antietam, roughly 190 miles east — explosions rocked the Allegheny Arsenal, killing 78 workers, mostly women and girls. The site of the Arsenal laboratory — epicenter of the disaster — is a playground today in Arsenal Park in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh. READ MORE about the tragedy in this story by my friend, Rich Condon: https://www.historynet.com/the-war-in-their-words-the-alleg
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