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In addition to Thursday Doors, I am participating in Linda G. Hill’s Just Jot January. Today’s prompt is “Donut” and was provdied by Liz Husebye Hartmann. Since my doors today are from a short trip with our daughter Faith to a nearby museum, I’m including doors from a place where we begin many of our trips.
Our daughter Faith took me on a tour of the Springfield Armory National Historic Site for my birthday back in November. When I was in high school, I worked for a manufacturing company that made gun barrels. I was surprised to see how little the process had changed. The machinery I worked with in the early 1970s was certainly more modern, but the production steps were very similar. Much of the information included here is from the Armory’s website.
Forging Arms for the Nation
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
For nearly two centuries, the U.S. Armed Forces and American industry looked to Springfield Armory for innovative engineering and superior firearms. Springfield Armory National Historic Site commemorates the critical role of the nation’s first armory by preserving and interpreting the world’s largest historic US military small arms collection, along with historic archives, buildings, and landscape
Springfield Armory was established in 1777 as a federal arsenal; as an arsenal, firearms that supplied the Continental Army during the American Revolution were stored here. After the Revolution, Springfield Arsenal was officially established as a federal armory where arms could be stored and produced.
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
In 1794 under the authorization of George Washington. Harpers Ferry, our sister armory, was the second site selected for an armory. Early in the Civil War the arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry were torched leaving Springfield Armory as the Nation’s only federal armory producing small arms for the Union.
As Springfield Armory underwent the transition from an arsenal to armory it expanded, as it no longer just stored firearms, but manufactured them, as well. Additional buildings were added to the Hill Shops, the Water Shops were consolidated, and development occurred at Federal Square to aid in the production of firearms.
I will share photos from the Historic Site again next week, and the some doors from the area around this site in Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield is about 15 mi (24 km) north of where we live.
I hope you enjoy the photos in the gallery. I also hope that you will spend some time visiting the doors shared by some of the other participants.
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