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Allegheny Arsenal

Arsenal, Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville), Pennsylvania.

Side
Union
Kind
Arsenal
Where
Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville), Pennsylvania
Years
1861-1865
Today
Park
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ALLEGHENY ARSENAL

Supply and manufacturing center for Union troops in the West, where women made paper rifle cartridges. A series of explosions tore through the laboratory on September 17, 1862, and killed 78 workers, most of them young women, the largest civilian disaster of the war.

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Then

A supply and manufacturing center for Union troops in the West. Paper rifle cartridges became its priority, civilian employment rose from 308 before the war to over 1,100, and the main laboratory employed 158 workers, most of them women making cartridges.

A series of explosions tore through the laboratory on September 17, 1862, and killed 78 workers, most of them young women, the largest civilian disaster of the war.

Now

Park

Arsenal Park, Arsenal Middle School, a county health center and the Arsenal 201 condominiums occupy the grounds. The powder magazine, two magazine buildings, an officers' quarters and sections of the stone wall survive.

The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 0.3 miles away.

Nearby

Sources

  1. Allegheny Arsenal (Wikipedia)