He then returned to Mendoza, setting up a gunpowder factory.
The church was requisitioned and transformed into a gunpowder factory.
During the 18th century gunpowder factories became increasingly dependent on mechanical energy.
Some distance from the town there is a Quarry and an old gunpowder factory.
He also owned a gunpowder factory, but it exploded in 1875.
He also founded a gunpowder factory and sent some of the production to Cuba.
The large park was on the grounds of a former plantation that then became a gunpowder factory.
A gunpowder factory was built on the creek but exploded.
The paper mill exercised control for more than half a century after the gunpowder factory closed in 1905.
A significant number of buildings from the gunpowder factory can still be found.