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Humpday Throwback: Old Hickory Gunpowder Plant




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The Old Hickory Gunpowder Plant was at a bend in the Cumberland River near Nashville and was 93% completed by the time of the Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918. The War Department of the federal government paid all construction costs, which amounted to about $83 million, and DuPont received $1 in compensation. The Old Hickory Gunpowder Plant was the largest munitions plant in the world at the time of operation in 1918-1919, occupying about 4,700 acres and producing half a million pounds of powder a day. PHOTO COURTESY OF STATE OF TENNESSEE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES

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