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|last=Lee
|first=Andrew S.
|first2=Allison A.
|last2=Crosbie
|year=2009
|publisher=[[Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation]], [[National Park Service]]
|location=Boston
|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/hafe/armory_clr.pdf
|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630131030/https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/hafe/armory_clr.pdf |archive-date= Jun 30, 2023 }}</ref>{{rp|185}} As of that date, the Armory had manufactured some 600,000 firearms.<ref>{{cite journal
|title=The Men Who Started the War
|first=Drew Gilpin
|author-link=Drew Gilpin Faust
|journal=[[The Atlantic]]
|date=December 2023
|pages=82-89, at p. 84}}</ref>
During the [[American Civil War]], the Armory was destroyed and its equipment removed; it was not rebuilt. The only surviving building is its former fire engine house, known today as [[John Brown's Fort]]. As of 2021, it is not in its original location.
==The national armory==
In 1794, the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passed a [[Bill (proposed law)|bill]] calling "''for the erecting and repairing of Arsenals and Magazines''". President [[George Washington]], given wide latitude in carrying out this order, selected Harpers Ferry, then a part of [[Virginia]], for the location of the Harpers Ferry National Armory.<ref name="nps1">{{cite web |title=Harpers Ferry Armory and Arsenal |url=
The national armory at Harpers Ferry was actually the second national armory. The first was the [[Springfield Armory]], constructed in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1794 after Congress approved the bill to create the nation's first national armory.
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031095728/https://www.nps.gov/hafe/learn/historyculture/james-h-burton.htm
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}}</ref> The South had virtually no small-arms production and an inadequate supply of raw materials. The machinery taken from Harpers Ferry became the foundation of the Confederate arms manufacturing.{{cn|date=September 2023}} Two weeks later, the Confederates abandoned Harpers Ferry, while also confiscating what was left in the Armory and burning the rest of the remaining buildings.<ref name="
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====The armory's strategic location====
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===Aftermath of the Civil War===
[[File:Overlooking the U.S. Armory (Musket Factory) archeology site, at sunset (22130382701).jpg|thumb|Overlooking the U.S. Armory (Musket Factory) archaeology site (NPS Photo/Hammer)]]
Due to the degree of damage to the armory during the Civil War, the U.S. government decided not to re-establish the armory at Harpers Ferry, instead focusing the quickly developing areas west of the Mississippi River.
Today the site is mostly covered by railroad track embankments.
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== See also ==
* [[Harpers Ferry Model 1803|Harpers Ferry Model 1803 Rifle]]▼
* [[John Brown's Fort]]
▲* [[Harpers Ferry Model 1803|Harpers Ferry Model 1803 Rifle]]
* [[M1819 Hall rifle]]
* [[M1841 Mississippi rifle]]
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==External links==
{{commons
* {{HABS |survey=WV-162 |id=wv0109 |title=Armory Yard Gateway, Murphy Farm, .5 mile south of Highway 340, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV}}
* {{HABS |survey=WV-230 |id=wv0207 |title=Armorer's Dwelling House, Northwest side of Shanandoah Street, 400' west of Market Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV |link=no}}
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[[Category:Historic American Engineering Record in West Virginia]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia]]
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[[Category:United States Army arsenals]]
[[Category:John Brown sites]]
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