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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
|last=Faust
|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
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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