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Abandoned

Indiana Army Ammunition Plant

The Emergence of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant: A Chronicle of Wartime Necessity

The advent of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was inevitable because of the looming tempest of global conflict. Spurred by the National Defense Appropriations Act and the subsequent Munitions Program, the United States Ordinance Department enlisted private corporations to undertake the formidable task of designing and constructing munitions factories for the production of smokeless gunpowder and other ordinances.