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Indiana Army Ammunition Plant 703 administration building, 1979, Charlestown, Indiana

Description: A photograph of INAAP 703 administration building in 1979. ICI America became the managing contractor of the facility in 1972. The name changed to ICI Americas for a short time. The building is located at the corner of Highway 62 and Charlestown Landing Road in Charlestown, Indiana. The US federal government began acquiring land in Charlestown, Indiana in 1940 to build a smokeless powder ordnance plant to supply the US military during World War II. Indiana Ordnance Works (IOW) Plant 1 and Hoosier Ordnance Plant (HOP) began production in 1941. In 1944, IOW Plant 2 construction began. After the end of WWII, the three plants were combined and renamed Indiana Arsenal. In 1963 it became Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (INAAP). Production of ordnance continued at the plant until 1992. After that time, the land and facilities were leased to private industry. A large portion of the land became Charlestown State Park. In October 2016, all the land and facilities were officially sold by the government. This item is part of a larger collection of items from INAAP.
Origin: 1979
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/14642
Collection: Clark County Collections
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Geography: Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana
38.436824, -85.658816
Subjects: Indiana Ordnance Works (U.S.)
Hoosier Ordnance Plant
Indiana Arsenal
Indiana Army Ammunition Plant
Explosives Industry--Indiana
Gunpowder, Smokeless
Ordnance manufacture
Black powder manufacture
Facility One
ICI Americas Inc
Clark County (Ind.)
Charlestown (Ind.)
United States. Army Ordnance and Ordnance Stores

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