During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.
On September 22, 1953 a new kind of construction was fully opened for the first time in Los Angeles. The Stack is an LA icon that changed the way the world builds its highways.