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Military / West Virginia

The West Virginia Ordnance Works (WVOW) was a TNT manufacturing facility near Point Pleasant, West Virginia.



Briceville Air Force Base
Military / Tennessee

Briceville Air Force Base is a former radar installation atop Cross Mountain in Tennessee. It was designed to provide an early warning system for Oak Ridge.



Indiana Army Ammunition Plant
Military / Indiana

The Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (INAAP) is a former military ammunition and ordinance factory in Charlestown, Indiana. It was the largest gunpowder and ordinance facility of its type in the United States. INAAP was constructed after the passage of the first National Defense Appropriations Act. Four days after the enactment of the Act, the Munitions Program was passed in which the U.S. Ordinance Department sponsored private manufacturing corporations to design and produce ammunition factories, producing smokeless gunpowder and other ordinances.



Brookfield Air Force Station
Military / Ohio

Brookfield Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station near Brookfield, Ohio.



Fort Greene BCN 211
Military / Rhode Island

Fort Greene. constructed as part of a modernization of U.S. coastal defenses in Rhode Island, was mostly abandoned after World War II concluded.



Battery 223
Military / New Jersey

Cape May Military Reservation, part of the Harbor Defense of the Delaware, was a World War II sub post of Fort Miles, Delaware.



Fort Carroll
Military / Maryland

Fort Carroll is an abandoned sea fort in the middle of the Patapsco River near Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.



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