Indiana Army Ammunition Plant ranney well photograph, Apr 1992 Charlestown, Indiana

Description:	A photograph of a Ranney Well located along the Ohio River in the Indiana Ordnance Works area at Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charlestown, Indiana. The wells were used to pump water from the aquaphor under the area.Photograph taken in April 1992 by Ron Repp, who worked at the facility.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, Indiana Arsenal became the new name of the facility when the three plants merged. 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, private industry became the tenants. A large portion of the land became Charlestown State Park. In October 2016, the government officially sold all the remaining land and facilities. The library’s collection of INAAP items is kept at Charlestown Library.
Origin:	1992-04
Created By:	Repp, Ronald
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/35884
Collection:	Clark County Collections
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	Charlestown-Clark County Public Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners and/or holders of other rights such as publicity and/or privacy rights is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may be content that is protected as works for hire copyright held by the party that commissioned the original work and/or under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
Geography:	Charlestown, Clark, Indiana 38.431431, -85.660993
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 INAAP

Further information on this record can be found at its source.