Clermont State Historic Site: The Livingstons' Lost Powder ...
May 28, 2013· The Livingstons' Lost Powder Mill ... To this end Livingston ordered a furnace room constructed to dry wet and damp powder faster. This may have doomed his mill. Sometime between a last letter about the mill on November 4, 1775 and his death on December 9, 1775 the mill exploded.