Champlain Arsenal
Arsenal, Vergennes, Vermont.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Vergennes, Vermont
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
CHAMPLAIN ARSENAL
Army arms depository and depot near Vergennes, built in the 1820s on the site of an iron mill, with barracks, a magazine and ordnance storehouses. The Army discontinued it in 1855 and reopened it in 1861. It closed as an arsenal in 1872.
Then
An Army arms depository and depot near Vergennes, built in the 1820s on the site of an iron mill, with officers' quarters, barracks, a magazine, a laboratory and ordnance and munitions storehouses. The Army had discontinued it in 1855 and reopened it in 1861.
It closed as an arsenal in 1872 and was sold in 1873.
Now
Built over
Two arsenal buildings survive as the oldest buildings of the former Vermont Industrial School, now a Job Corps center. They have been shuttered since the 1970s.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 1.0 miles away.