Indiana Army Ammunition Plant

The Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was an Army manufacturing plant built in 1941 between Charlestown and Jeffersonville, Indiana. It consisted of three areas within two separate but attached manufacturing plants:

Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 1 (IOW#1): (3,564.71 acres) made smokeless powder
Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 2 (IOW#2): (2,757.49 acres) made rocket propellant
Hoosier Ordnance Plant (HOP): (4,326.8 acres) manufactured (and loaded) propellant charge bags

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