Old Powder Magazine
The Old Powder Magazine is the oldest public building in North or South
Carolina. In the late 1600's the Powder Magazine was crucial to storage
of powder for defense of the city and continued to serve this purpose until
the Revolutionary War. Later it served as a printing house, a storage
building and a livery stable. Today it has been restored to its mid-nineteenth
century appearange is is a National Historic Landmark site. |