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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