From Wikipedia.
In the last post I wrote about the Dekalb Corn Company buying some of this ordnance plant in Central Illinois (near Springfield) as war surplus after the war was over.
The Sangamon Ordnance Plant was a United States Army amminition manufacturing facility constructed and operated during World War II. It was located west of Illiopolis in Sangamon County, Illinois, encompassing 20,000 acres.
It began as two separate plants, the Sangamon and the Oak Ordnance Plants, separated by Illinois Route 36 and operated by Remington Rand and Johnson & Johnson respectively. Prior to the end of the war, they were consolidated into the Sangamon Ordnance Plant operated by Remington Rand.
Construction began in early 1942, following the acquisition of local farms through eminent domain with the groundbreaking occurring in April 1942.
--GreGen
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