Indiana Arsenal propellent charge line no3 bag loading building 16 Feb 1951 Charlestown, Indiana

Description:	A photograph of the bag loading building of propellent charge line number 3 at Indiana Arsenal, Charlestown, Indiana 16 February 1951. This is in the old Hoosier Ordnance Plant area. The slides coming down from the upper floor are for people to escape if there is a fire.Printed on the photograph:Louisville District, Corps of Engineers, u.S. ArmyDate: 24 April 1951. File No. 25334Indiana Arsenal, Charlestown, indiana; Rehabilitation of Hoosier Ordnance Plant, Contract DA-15-029eng-2121, Whittenberg Construciton Company, Louisville, Kentucky, date 16 February 1951. Propellent line No. 3. Bag loading building.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 beca
Origin:	1951-02-16
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/36205
Collection:	Clark County Collections
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Geography:	Charlestown, Clark, Indiana 38.430374, -85.662651
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

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