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Currently, it's a town of 2,400 people about 12 miles from Philadelphia, PA.
During World War I, it was the home of the largest rifle factory in the world, where nearly 2 million rifles were made. A look at Eddystone Arsenal in the archives (thread) https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/images/Pennsylvania/EDDYSTONE_M1917_WOODWORKING_BLDG_illustrated2.pdf
During World War I, it was the home of the largest rifle factory in the world, where nearly 2 million rifles were made. A look at Eddystone Arsenal in the archives (thread) https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/images/Pennsylvania/EDDYSTONE_M1917_WOODWORKING_BLDG_illustrated2.pdf
A Model 1917 rifle made in Eddystone (from @NRA_museums): http://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/world-war-i-and-firearms-innovation/case-32-wwi-america-and-the-allies/us-eddystone-model-1917-bolt-action-rifle.aspx
The rifle and its many parts: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175442
Crowd leaving through one of the many gates of the plant: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175426
Crowd leaving through one of the many gates of Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co.: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175436
Rolling the barrel: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175456
Line of barrel straightening machines: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175418
Cases of barrels with milling machines in background: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175428
Heating receivers for temper: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175452
Small electrical truck loaded with receivers: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175438
Turning lathe at work on stocks: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175430
Shaving gun stocks: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175432
A line of polishing machines: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175448
Woman broaching key seat in front sight carrier for rifle: https://www.loc.gov/item/92522615/
Milling primers: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016645648/
Profiling extractors: https://www.loc.gov/item/2002716625/
Testing guns in indoor rifle range: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175446
Dipping gun stocks in oil to preserve them: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175440
Dipping rifles in oil before shipping: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175422
United States officers inspecting rifles: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55175424
Secretary of the Navy, Daniels attended the ceremonies which marked the delivery of one million rifles to the Government within a year by the Midvale Steel Company, Eddystone, PA. Secretary Daniels is shown with a few of the women workers in the plant: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45535026
"In April 1917... several explosions in an ammunitions factory rocked this riverside community, causing shock waves felt miles away and leaving 132 people dead. Some 52 were never identified. Others were identified only by the clothes they were wearing." https://www.delcotimes.com/news/eddystone-remembers-th-anniversary-of-ammo-plant-blast-that-rocked/article_14fe681d-96e5-51de-aec0-81685c778098.html
Fire apparatus on its way to the Eddystone Ammunition Plant where a series of explosions killed a great many persons: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31478231
Scene at Eddystone after the explosion. Captain Morey and officers going to help: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31478233
Guards keeping back people that swarmed around the plant to find out whether their loved ones were injured, alive, or dead: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31478191
Burying the unidentified victims of the Eddystone Munitions disaster, April 13, 1918: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31478080
Burying the unidentified victims of the Eddystone Munitions disaster, April 13, 1918: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31478088
Burying the unidentified dead victims of the explosion at the Eddystone Plant at Chester, Pennsylvania. April 1917: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31478195
The bodies of sixty-three unidentified victims of the Eddystone explosion were buried together in the Chester Rural Cemetery following a general religious ceremony: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31478193
(End of thread) For additional info and pictures: https://www.remingtonsociety.org/the-story-of-eddystone/
