Indiana Army Ammunition Plant

One of the abandoned power plants.
Main Laboratory, building 706–1.
Disused rail cars line a track built in 1975 for the new smokeless powder manufacturing facility that was completed in 1979. The new plant was never fully utilized and was demolished in 2008.
Poacher House, building 112–2.

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