Kingsbury Ordinance Plant

The site of the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant (KOP) is located near modern day Kingsbury, Indiana. The plant consisted of several ammunition factories and storage buildings occupying over 10,000 acres of land. It produced shells, cartridges and mortar rounds for WWII. By May of 1942, there were more than 20,000 employees working at the site. The small towns of Kingsbury and Kingsford Heights were created to house KOP workers and their families. After the war ended in August 1945, the plant began closing but it was briefly reopened in 1951 for the Korean War.

The area is now zoned as an industrial park and some of the land is actively used by a handful of factories and chemical manufacturers. But there are unused portions of the park that have been abandoned since the wars. Trees have grown in strange places, roads have crumbled and buildings have been left to rot. In the spring of 2000, I went to some of the unused areas of KOP and took the following pictures.

Storage Bunker	Storage Bunker	Storage Bunker	Ruined Building And Grain Silo
Fallen Telephone Pole	Recently Uprooted Tree	Empty Buildings	Building With Escape Slide
Emergency Escape Slide	Emergency Escape Slide	Building With Escape Slide	Cement Foundation
Cement Foundation	Foundation	Reinforced Concrete	Moss
Crumbling Paved Road	Redbrick	Water Tower	Water Tower
Water Tower Ladder	Water Tower Support	Inside	Inside
Forest Road	Train Tracks	Train Tracks Path	Tracks
Tracks Into Forest	Ash Heap	Ash Heap	Ash Heap
Ash Heap	Ash Heap	Ash Heap