Facility One I INAAP ICI-INAAP industrial center heavy industry map c1995, Charlestown, Indiana

Description:	This is a map of the heavy industry area at Facility One I INAAP in Charlestown, Indiana from 1995. Facility One was the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant.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. [photograph][map]FAClLITY ONE I INAAPICI/INAAP INDUSTRIAL CENTERHEAVY INDUSTRYThe Heavy Industrial section of the plant offers 3 manufacturing lines for cellulose based materials. These lines were originally constructed for the manufacture of nitrocellulose, but can be adapted for paper recycling. Each line consists of a 22,000 sf raw materials receiving building, nitrating house, boiling tub house with 10,000 gal. steam heated stainless steel tanks, pulping house for material grinding, poaching house with agitation, and dewatering and dehydration process buildings. All processes are connected by slurry lines, rail lines, and roads for material or personnel movement These process lines can be adapted for paper recycling using package boilers for steam, and the product can be shipped in bulk, or end use applications can be developed on-site. Capacity is 75 to 100 tons per day, per line.For More Information Call 1-800-767-4201
Origin:	1995
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/17978
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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