Home Fading memories of a wartime powerhouse: South Charleston’s ordnance plant South Charleston Map, 1931

South Charleston Map, 1931

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

South Charleston, West Virginia, by 1931 was a thriving hub of industry surrounding the "U.S. Navy Reservation."

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