Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Powder House Island
Powder House Island
[edit]- This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.
The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 5, 2022 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:35, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
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Powder House Island (also known as Dynamite Island) is an artificial island on the lower Detroit River in southeast Michigan, directly adjacent to the Canadian border. It was constructed in the late 1880s by the Dunbar & Sullivan Company to manufacture and store explosives during their dredging of the Livingstone Channel, in a successful attempt to circumvent an 1880 court order forbidding the company from storing explosives on nearby Fox Island. In 1906, Twenty short tons (18,000 kg) of the island's dynamite exploded after two men "had been shooting with a revolver" near it. The explosion was clearly audible from 85 mi (137 km) away. By the 1980s, it was completely unused; by 2015, the island was owned by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, managed by its Wildlife Division as part of the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, and accessible to the public for hunting and camping. (Full article...)
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- Main editors: JPxG
- Promoted: 28 February 2022
- Reasons for nomination: This is the first FA I have ever written, so would be my first TFA. Apologies if I have misformatted anything in this request!
- Support as nominator. jp×g 23:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)