Home Fading memories of a wartime powerhouse: South Charleston’s ordnance plant Farmland at South Charleston 1899

Farmland at South Charleston 1899

David Sibray strolls the track around Oakes Field in the shadow of the former Charleston Ordnance Center.

South Charleston, West Virginia, in 1899 was farmed bottomland along the Kanawha River west of Charleston, West Virginia.

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