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Close-up view of west entrance. - Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Gymnasium, North Main Avenue, Industrial Area, Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV
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Earl, Austin Willmott
Dinwiddie-Monson Construction Company
Gill, Barry, transmitter
Riege, Lynn A, photographer
Koval, Ana B, historian
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Close-up view of west entrance. - Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Gymnasium, North Main Avenue, Industrial Area, Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV
Depicted place Nevada; Mineral County; Hawthorne
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS NEW,11-HAWT,2G-9
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  • Significance: The Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD) is a nationally significant military district. It was built for state-of-the-art ammunition storage in the late 1920s (criterion C); it is by and far the largest depot of its kind known in the world with 2501 magazines and storehouses, 212 miles of railroad track, 418 miles of blacktop, and 232 square miles of land (criterion C); and it is significant for its role in World War II. Producing a vast amount of ordnance, it was THE Naval Ammunition Depot for the Pacific Theater during World War II.
  • Survey number: HABS NV-21-G
  • Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1961-1962 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1968 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1970- before. 1980 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1983 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1989 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nv0141.photos.048899p
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Object location38° 31′ 28.99″ N, 118° 37′ 25″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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