Black Powder Manufacturing Plant at Indiana Army Ammunition Plant procedure report 1982, Charlestown, Indiana

Description:	This document describes a proposed new black powder manufacturing facility to be built at Indiana Army Ammunition Plant. It gives a brief history of black powder and tells how the United States needs a new facility to produce black powder. It describes the modernized procedures that will be used. In 1982, the plant was built in the southwest corner of IOW Plant 2 near the Ohio River. This plant cost $35 million. It was designed to produce 500,000 pounds of class I military grade black powder per month. Operation of this plant only lasted one year due to its efficiency in producing black powder and the decrease in need due to changes in modern warfare. It was put in standby in the summer of 1983 and never used again. The land and buildings are now part of Charlestown State Park.The United States 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. On 30 Nov 1945 at the end of WWII, the three plants were combined and renamed Indiana Arsenal. Between 1 Nov 1961 and 1 Aug 1963, the plant was designated Indiana Ordnance Plant. After this time, 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 that are kept at Charlestown Library.
Origin:	1982
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/17840
Collection:	Clark County Collections
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Geography:	Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana 38.436824, -85.658816
Subjects:	Procedure reports 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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