Springfield Armory National Historic Site - News (U.S. National Park Service)

CLICK here to learn about the storming of Springfield Arsenal in 1787

Image is adapted from Amos Doolittle's 1775 engraving of "The Battle of Lexington."

Find history, transcriptions and images of original historic documents from Shays's Rebellion here! "CLICK" on the image of the fleeing, wounded, and slain rebels above.
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Forging musket barrels and other musket parts in the Watershops, Springfield Armory, in the mid-1800's

Jacob Abbott, MARCO PAUL, 1852

The heavy metal and wood shaping was done at the water-powered "Watershops", part of Springfield Armory, a mile south of today's Springfield Armory NHS at the "Hill Shops" where military weapons were finished and assembled.

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY: 1812-1865 Lesson plans, history, and images have been combined by Springfield Armory National Historic Site and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, through a Parks as Classrooms grant, to create a WEBsite [CLICK HERE!!] about the development of industrial interchangeable manufacturing at Springfield Armory from 1812 to 1865.

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Supported by a grant from Parks as Classrooms: Teaching and Learning Without Walls

This section of the website was made possible through grants from the National Park Service’s, "Parks as Classroom"

and the National Rifle Association (NRA) which was awarded to the Friends of the Springfield Armory Museum Inc.

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An early WWII American poster encouraging women to join the war production effort as Women Ordnance Workers. During the war, up to 42% of the Armory's workers were women.

US government poster, Springfield Armory NHS, US NPS

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY: 1892-1945 Lesson plans, history, and images have been combined by Springfield Armory National Historic Site and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, through a Parks as Classrooms grant, to create a WEBsite [CLICK HERE!!] about the history of manufacturing and the workers at Springfield Armory from 1892 to 1945.

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Besides designing and producing the bulk of the US armed forces' shoulder arms, Springfield Armory included increasing numbers of minorities and women into industrial manufacturing.

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Supported by a grant from Parks as Classrooms: Teaching and Learning Without Walls

This section of the website was made possible through grants from the National Park Service’s, "Parks as Classroom"

and the National Rifle Association (NRA) which was awarded to the Friends of the Springfield Armory Museum Inc.

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The Byers Street Gate, with the Main Arsenal Building beyond housing the Museum

courtesy: AmericanHeritage.com

image from Springfield Armory NHS, US NPS

Read a new article, by author Jack Kelly, Springfield and the Birth of Mass Production ["CLICK" here], in AmericanHeritage.com, “History’s Homepage”, about Springfield Armory and the National Historic Site and its Museum.