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UNCLASSIFIED Rock Island Arsenal History 1804-2017 As of 8 August 2018 http://www.aschq.army.mil UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Early Rock Island History Sac and Fox Treaty of 1804 Louisiana Purchase- 1803 Approx 50 million acres 2 2

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http://www.aschq.army.mil

As of 8 August 2018

Rock Island Arsenal History 1804-2017

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Louisiana Purchase- 1803 Sac and Fox Treaty of 1804 Approx 50 million acres

Early Rock Island History

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Fort Armstrong

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Fort Armstrong

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Fort Armstrong: 1816-1845 (Burned in 1856)

Fort Armstrong

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Rock Island Rapids Prior to the lock and Dam

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1st Bridge (Wood) 4th Bridge (Steel) 3rd Bridge (Iron) 2nd Bridge (Wood)

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Original Bridge First the Mississippi

First Bridge 1856-1866

Completed: 22 April 1856

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Effie Afton Incident

Effie Afton Incident: 6 May 1856

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Damaged: Spring of 1868

Second Bridge 1866-1872

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Third Bridge- 1872-1896

  • First iron bridge
  • Double Whipple truss
  • Dual deck bridge
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Fourth Bridge- 1896

  • Bridge expansion
  • Ralph Modjeski design
  • Known as

“The Government Bridge”

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Rock Island Prison Barracks- 1864

  • 12,192 total prisoners
  • 1,967 prisoners died
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Union Guards at POW Camp

Morning Roll Call

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Main Street of the Civil War Prison Barracks

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Clock Tower Building (1863)

Clock Tower-1867

Clock Tower

  • Arsenal established 1862
  • First permanent building
  • Started construction 1863
  • Supply difficulties
  • Completed 1867
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BVT BG Thomas J. Rodman

  • Command August 1865
  • Considered Father of the Arsenal

“Father of the Arsenal”

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Quarters One

Quarters One

Commanding Officer’s Quarters

  • Finished 1871
  • 20,000 sqft
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Stone Shops

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Stone Shops

Stone shops

  • Center of the arsenal
  • Each shop was 300’ in length
  • Made of Joliet limestone
  • Intended to make everything a

Soldier needed.

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First World War

  • 1914 - 9 % of Rock Island

Arsenal workforce is female

  • 1,800 men
  • 175 women
  • 1918 - 10% of Rock Island

Arsenal workforce is female

  • 13,361 men
  • 1,417 women
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First World War

  • Rifle production
  • Ammunition assembly
  • Artillery carriage assembly
  • Harness and cloth department

First World War

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Shell filling

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“Girls working at machines

  • r near dangerous

machinery will wear the bloomer uniform…others may wear the black sateen uniform.” COL L.T. Hillman, November 5, 1918 First World War

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Mark VIII Tanks– 100 Built in 286 Days-- 1920

Between the Wars

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Rock Island Arsenal– The Center for Tank Development 1920-1938 M3 Tank

Between the Wars

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Second World War

  • 1924 – 618 employees
  • 566 men
  • 52 women
  • 1943 – 18,675 total
  • 12,699 men
  • 5,976 women
  • Females make up over 32% of workers
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Second World War

  • Machine Gun and Rifle

Assembly

  • Artillery assembly
  • Harness and cloth

department

  • Parts Depot

Second World War

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World War II– 32% of the Workforce was Female

Second World War

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Honest John MGR-1

  • First nuclear-capable surface to

surface rocket in the US.

  • First tested 29 June 1951
  • Could also use conventional 1,500

pound warhead

  • Deployed to Europe by 1954

Cold War

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1970s-1980s Artillery Systems

Cold War

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Rock Island Arsenal Today

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More than Just Production

60 Tenants 1st Army Two major AMC commands

  • ASC
  • JMC

Sections of other AMC commands CPOC, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, Engineers, contractors 6,500 people on the Island

Rock Island Arsenal Today