Harpers Ferry Armory: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Former United States federal armory}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}}

The '''Harpers Ferry Armory''', more formally known as the '''United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry''', was the second federal armory created by the United States government. (The first was the [[Springfield Armory]].) It was located in [[Harpers Ferry]], [[Virginia]] (since 1863, [[West Virginia]]). It was both an [[arsenal]], manufacturing firearms, and an armory, a storehouse for firearms. Along with the Springfield Armory, it was instrumental in the development of [[machining]] techniques to make [[interchangeable parts]] of precisely the same dimensions.<ref>{{Hounshell1984}}</ref>