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U.S.N.P. No. 2 c. 1918 - United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL
Photographer
Behrens, Thomas M., creator
Title
U.S.N.P. No. 2 c. 1918 - United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Colbert County; Muscle Shoals
Date 1994
date QS:P571,+1994-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 34 x 44 in. (E size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER ALA,17-MUSHO,1- (sheet 2 of 7)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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Notes
  • Significance: Production of Ammonium Nitrate. / Built as a war measure for the production of ammonium nitrate, a key component in high explosives, U.S.N.P. No. 2 became one of the largest plants of its kind with a capacity to produce 110,000 tons of ammonium nitrate per year. The plant and its adjoining industrial town were hurriedly constructed in a nine month period between February and November of 1918 with little regard to cost. After two brief periods of production, one toward the end of 1918, the other in the February of 1919, the 348 acre manufacturing site lay idle for the next fourteen years while Congress and private industry wrangled over bids that had less to do with the nitrate plant than they did with the hydro-power of the adjoining Wilson Dam.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N162
  • Survey number: HAER AL-46
  • Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction
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Related names:

Tennessee Valley Authority
Office of Agricultural and Chemical Development
National Fertilizer Development Center
National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center
Environmental Research Center
Westinghouse, Church, and Kerr Company
Behrens, Tom, transmitter
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al1051.sheet.00002a
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Camera location34° 44′ 40.99″ N, 87° 40′ 03″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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